Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaesong Deadlock. At the conference table in the big tent at Panmunjom, there was rapid progress last week on item 2 on the agenda-the cease-fire line-which gave rise to some premature optimism. The Reds suddenly proposed a line which almost coincided with the U.N. proposal along most of the front. The Red concession meant that the allies could keep their hard-won mountain terrain (including Heartbreak Ridge) in the center and east. The Communists also agreed to the simile buffer zone along the line suggested...
...some sort of compromise and that the cease-fire line would be settled at last. But that would not, by any means, signal the end of the war. During all the fuss & fury over the cease-fire line, a time bomb in the agenda had been quietly ticking away: item 3, which concerns supervision of the truce arrangements, and which the U.N. believes must involve inspection by each side behind the opposing lines...
...Mound D Village was not like its neighbors. By some sort of "cultural exchange" (perhaps traders, slaves or refugees from the Weeden Island people in Florida), it acquired newfangled ideas that originated in the civilizations across the Caribbean. One item in this ancient Point Four program was the technique of making elaborate, artistic and useless pottery for ritual purposes. Another, unfortunately for the villagers, was an inkling of a grisly religion, dark with human sacrifice and priestly tyranny, which was often a feature of the high Indian cultures...
...that visibly sizzles their drenched clothes. The women all laugh, but they are obviously wooden dolls, badly made, and can only cackle, clatter . . . and hop or slide in heelless straw sandals across floors . . . I believe the Mikado laughs when his ministers have a cabinet council." One Japanese item was no laughing matter for a Bostonian: "I was a bit aghast when one young woman called my attention to a temple as a remains of phallic worship; but what can one do? . . . One cannot quite ignore the foundations of society...
...Another item that appears on the Summary Card is a figure called "PRL," or Predicted Rank List. This number gives a general confidential estimate of the student's academic capability and promise...