Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain why I am mentioning George Rinehart's "Boy Meets Girl" first. It is not the best item in Signature, nor is it the worst. But for awhile it gave me a hard time. I started to read: "Behold! For this is that of Beowulf, of Ecgtheow the son. May his hair grow long in heaven...
...Hidden Flaws. But none of this altered the grey toil of entering item 6, and subtracting line 2 from line 1, or eased the dogged pursuit of deductions. The task of home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
...House, too, a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats tirelessly pecked and burrowed away at Harry Truman's Fair Deal, item by item. Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...
...right and all opponents are wrong, spiritually and factually; 2) he can beat any politician or set of politicians at their common trade; 3) he is boss and intends to assert it; 4) the American majority and most men & women of good will support him down to the item; and 5) if his friends are criticized, with or without good basis, it is a virtue to make a blanket defense of them and keep them in the places to which they are assigned...
What he did not explain was that the "tipster" was his own tipster, and that he had printed the first item without even bothering to check the Mayor's license plate. Only readers with good memories would know that the second item was a correction of Winchell's month-old mistake...