Word: itemizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tried to flush out lurking marauders at the start. French Deputies hate to raise taxes but love to raise the salaries of government workers. Since the Assembly cannot increase the government's allocations, its favorite device for forcing the government to increase salaries is to send any budget item back to committee. Mendes sternly warned that he would tolerate no "untoward maneuvers." Unbelieving, the members of the Assembly went right ahead, prepared to send back to committee the estimate for the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs...
...Hanford's atomic energy plant, mushrooming cities, drawing industry and providing water for empty land. Today, in an empire lacking private local capital to meet the increasing dreams of manifest destiny, federal help still looms large, and U.S.-financed works find vigorous support even from otherwise conservative Republicans. Item: for 35 years, following the same trail over which the Lewis and Clark Expedition first entered the country in 1805, Idaho has tried to complete a new, direct highway across the precipitous Bitterroot Mountains to link Portland and the East. Without increased federal help, most citizens of the state...
...Moselle canal to link Lorraine's economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...
...piquant item dealt with sex among Communist bigwigs-particularly buxom Nilde Jotti, who is currently Togliatti's mistress, but had a long career in Red-style amore before that. The article made instructive reading at a time when the Communists, exploiting the Montesi scandal, have been rending the air with their own pretensions to morality...
...Shoop (CrewCuts; Mercury). "C'mon, baby, I need your love tonight," is the gist of this message, unless the title means something else. The male quartet that smashed the top with Sh-Boom is probably going to repeat its success with this unpleasant item...