Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this emphasis on the bomb was natural for the bomb-conscious U.S.; but it was by no means certain that Moscow was intensely interested in discussions of atomic agreements. Russia considered the atom a long-range item and would not worry much if terms for its control were not reached. Moscow knew that the U.S. would not use the bomb in current disputes ; meanwhile, Russian scientists would work to catch up. Five or ten years hence, the Russians' atomic bargaining position might be improved...
...brief news item has just reached us via Army News Service: "The United States has made the first large-scale sale of surplus war goods in the Pacific-65,000 tons of material sold for about $20,000,000 to The Netherlands East Indies Government...
...produced the astounding total of 138 first downs in the season to date, is 17-year-old Art Dakos, quarterback and passing sensation from Lowell, with Bill Penn, light-footed halfback, supplying the break-away runs. Walker does most of the kicking, and effectively enough to add one more item to the Eli offensive punch...
Moldy Homiletics. Comedy is about as inconspicuous an item in so-called comic strips today as drugs in drugstores. Krazy Kat died with its creator, the late George Herrimann. The Gumps, which in the days of the late Sidney Smith had a modest resemblance to middle-class U.S. life, has little now. Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, never any too real or too funny, has sunk so deep into moldy homiletics that it is now trying to make Tory a nice word by proving that only rabble revolted in 1776. Fantasy, outside of Crockett Johnson's Barnaby...
...DEVIL IN THE BUSH - Matthew Head - Simon & Schuster ($2). On Hooper Taliaferro's military mission into the Congo he stumbles across a marvelously carved ceremonial knife, two beautiful women and an evil old man. Un fortunately, this fine, assorted bag of jungle specimens includes one moth-eaten item: a thin, conventional plot of seduction and murder that has been used inumpteen whodunits with less glamorous settings. Verdict: fair...