Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newspaper advertisements warned women that they faced "a frank return to femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...
...year. The paper shortage had eliminated many accordion-like cardboard creations, and WPB had allowed limited quantities of metal for things like doll carriages. Herds of odd stuffed animals turned up-satin sea lions, kangaroos with detachable offspring and velvet dachshunds in chartreuse, cerise and copper rose. A favorite item for children: secondhand tricycles, to be bought in side streets with the furtive triumph of Central American revolutionists buying old Gatling guns...
...Church with TIME'S typical journalistic skulduggery regarding things Catholic. It would throw a sop to the gullible in the form of a picture of Pope Pius XII and Sister Mary Elaine. Do not palm the smear off on the pretense of freedom of the press. That item makes news only because it throws dung at the magnificent structure of the Church...
Manus was a red, shell-pocked beach, backed by impenetrable jungles and a shouldering mountain. The Seabees carried with them every item they needed-from aerial photographs and bulldozers to $15,000,000 in currency for the payroll and 50,000 cases of beer. On May 1 they went to work...
...race was close, it was also demonstrably one of the bitterest. But even more clearly it was one of the queerest. Item: the youngest candidate in history was running against one of the oldest. Item: for the first time, one of the candidates had already had three terms and wanted a fourth. Item: the P.A.C., the group making the biggest organized effort to elect the Democratic candidate, did not even belong to the Democratic Party. Item: the G.O.P. candidate not only didn't encourage foofaraw, bands, parades and demonstrations, but deliberately discouraged it. Item: one of the main campaign...