Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That had to be done in careful detail by a team of second-echelon ICA and Defense Department foreign-aid experts. Some of the "surplus" could be accounted for by the fact that Passman & Co. had engaged in such statistical antics as counting a $667 million item not once but twice in arriving at their final figure. Most of the $9.5 billion has been firmly committed to the foreign-aid pipeline. Example: the U.S. has about $3.7 billion in unexpended but obligated funds for arms for its allies. But such items as tanks and planes require about two years between...
...Communists so completely identified themselves with Arab nationalism, hatred of Israel and opposition to Western "imperialism" that many Arab nationalists could see no difference between their own policy and that of the Soviet Union. They might not be under Communist discipline, but they were deeply under Communist influence. Item: Syrian newspapers carried no news of the Hungarian revolt except what was put out by the Russians. Friendship and trade with Russia and Communist-bloc nations increase steadily...
...gallery of obsequious underlings (including his front man, natty Sam Goldstein, who also claimed protection under the Fifth Amendment), Tony Ducks showed that he is a Little Caesar among New York's labor racketeers: as a top gun, Tony Ducks snarled out advice to his hoodlums. Item: he ordered one of them to get Jimmy Hoffa, or Hoffa's St. Louis henchman, Harold Gibbons, to settle one of the many New York Teamster problems. The committee heard enough to conclude that Tony Ducks, as well as Mobster Johnny Dio, helped rig the key Teamster election in Joint Council...
...which means that if you squat so close to it that your knees rub against the dial buttons, you can almost see Ed Sullivan. We cling to it, all ten inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation piece." But then-every time the Kerrs save up $299 for a bigger set, they use the money to take a trip some place where there...
...look at the beginning she had made. Sitting on a couch together, the poet and his wife began to read. The translation, recalls Teacher Roach, moved them to tears. She finished her work, but then could not find a publisher willing to take a chance on so special an item. Not until Poet Jiménez won his Nobel Prize did Translator Roach get her publishing break. In the meantime. Professor William Roberts of Nashville's Vanderbilt University and his wife Mary had translated about three-quarters of the book and found a British publisher. The Roach translation holds...