Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squiggles by Spain's Joán Miró (at the Pierre Matisse), a fine collection of Ming porcelains (at the Komor), and antiseptic semi-abstractions by Charles Sheeler (at the Downtown). The esoteric fringe, always as long as an Easter bunny's ears, had a bright item: luminescent pictures by Marie Menken (at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery), which were guaranteed to be visible even in rooms darkened...
...future conference of their bosses, Jessup and his British and French colleagues simply wanted to list topics of discussion, in an order that did not prejudge their importance and in language that did not anticipate any decisions. Gromyko wanted a loaded agenda. He insisted that the first item must be "demilitarization" of Germany and safeguards against "remilitarization," the implication (which he expounded endlessly) being that the West was rearming Germany to attack Russia...
...underworld boss, "Big Red" Italiano, let his brother run a book right in his office. An accountant for the racketeers in the Cuban bolita (a version of numbers in which small numbered balls are shaken up in a burlap bag) told the committee that one weekly expense item meant money for the sheriff, scornfully designated in the books as "Cabeza de melon" or "Melon-head...
...Tony Accardo himself. Later, checking the records of the Erie & Buffalo policy wheel, the Chicago team found a 1949 income-tax report made out by Accardo and Guzik as partners. They were getting $278,666 from the wheel, the report showed, but investigators were more interested in another item further down. The partners had claimed a loss of $7,252 on the S & G Syndicate in Florida. That frugal claim was the first solid proof that Russell had muscled in as a Capone syndicate frontman...
Packing was no problem for Ridgway. He keeps a list of every article in all his 20-odd suitcases and trunks, as well as a master list of every item of clothing, furniture, etc., that he owns...