Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was more news from Russia last week-or at least what passes for news in Moscow-than there had been in months. Item: for the first time since before the war, Stalin called a Communist Party Congress. Item: the leaders of 464 million Chinese were in Moscow, talking (about something) to the leaders of 207 million Russians. Item: the Kremlin sent another note designed to prevent West Germany's joining the West. The outside world was sure that something was up-but what...
...commission as part of the agenda for its proposed Big Four meeting, although denouncing it as an "insult" to the German people. On the surface this looked like a change of stance for the Russians-but the gimmick was not hard to find. The election commission was relegated to Item 3 on the proposed agenda. Items 1 and 2 would deal with the framing of the all-German government and the peace treaty. Thus, in a Panmunjom type of marathon, the Russian negotiators could haggle and stall endlessly over Items 1 and 2, meanwhile holding up the European Army...
...angry farmers whose land would be flooded, and who argued instead for a federally financed program of soil conservation (contouring, terracing) and small detention dams on the land to hold the water where it fell. Each year the late Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas knocked the Tuttle Creek item out of the engineers' money bill...
...Item Company was sent up to replace battle-worn Baker Company on the hill; the men patched up their prefab bunkers and settled in. Captain Howard ("Spike") Connolly, commanding, set out the bright green battle flag of St. Michael, made for the Marines by Korean orphans. In the next twelve hours, the opposing sides fired off two of the most concentrated artillery and mortar barrages of the war. On about 800 yards of front, the U.S. dropped 32,000 rounds, the Chinese 15,000 rounds. Item Company Marines waited, their eyes strained by sleepless vigilance, endless concussions and flying dust...
...Herex had good reason not to identify the source of its story. The paper had rewritten an item it picked up from an irresponsible, hate-Stevenson California newsletter with a tiny circulation. Had the Herex bothered to check the "gossip"? "Certainly," answered City Editor Aggie Underwood, "we phoned two or three local Democratic leaders. They just hummed and said that it was interesting." As to why no other papers in or out of the Hearst chain picked up the item. Editor Underwood had a pat explanation. Said she: "It was a purely local story...