Word: itemizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since the buffer zone question was at an impasse, the negotiators take up some other agenda item. Nam II refused. He would not even show Joy on a map whether or not he understood the U.N. concept of a defensible cease-fire line...
Occasionally the calloused thumb of an exchange editor is arrested in its perambulations through the weekly stacks of newsprint by an item to make the hand pause, the eye light, and the mind reel. As a public service we reprint parts of the following lead editorial from The Technique, semi-weekly spokesman of Georgia Tech. and self-designated as "The South's Livellest College Newspaper...
...editorial board, overseen by banks, has had no top boss. Last week it got one. In as publisher and part owner stepped Hoosier-born Ralph Nicholson, 52, who has made a reputation for picking up bargains on a shoestring. In eight years, he built the rundown New Orleans Item into a moneymaker before selling it, in 1949, at a $600,000 profit. He bought an interest in the Tampa Times and its radio station, which two weeks ago he sold for $825,000 (he still controls Florida's St. Petersburg Independent...
...next session, the negotiation got down to Item No. 1. Vice Admiral Joy produced two maps showing the demarcation line the U.N. wanted. He and Nam II bent over the table, their heads almost touching as they studied the maps. The two sides clashed almost immediately. The Communists wanted to draw the demarcation line along the old North-South Korean boundary, the 38th parallel. If they could swing this, they would be able to trumpet to the world that the war had ended where it began; it would also win for the Reds much valuable real estate, for U.N. units...
...Coverage was limited in Wednesday's New York Times to 13 lines on page 21. The item was strategically placed under a story from Washington about protests to increased taxation; in the adjoining columns was the announcement of a new novel, "The Wanderer...