Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON, which felt it was in close contact with the situation, replied that Harvard "wouldn't exchange one item of its academic prestige for the best All-American football team in history and a herd of newspaper propagandists in the bargain." Even during the fall of 1925 the opinion was still widely held around Cambridge that Stadium was an accessory of the College and not the College of the Stadium...
...June the only major news item was the resignation of varsity crew coach E. A. Stevens because of lack of cooperation on the part of the crew. A monster rally of 500 saw the oarsmen off to Red Top and three weeks of grinding before the Yale race. And a week later the College was surprised by the suspension of six members of the Eli freshman crew for violating the honor system...
...item "Greyed Eel to Be Said": Although BBC announcers may have their own enunciatory peculiarities, they're not alone in this respect. Right here in the U.S. one can find some equally puzzling variations. Samples...
...defiance of gentle, scholarly Robert Oppenheimer is less noisy, less candid. But the Atomic Energy Commission's Personnel Security Board refused to restore his clearance partly on the ground that he has a basic disrespect for security regulations. (Item: he continues to associate with a man who once tried to pry out of him secret information that the Russians wanted.) McCarthy's friends say that all's fair in the fight against Communism. Oppenheimer's friends say he symbolizes freedom of thought and that his acts are prompted by his loving regard for the long-range...
...Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. He visited his nearby farm at Gettysburg. Pa., waded through waist-high wheat, then returned to Camp David for a session with bridge-playing friends. To the D-day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy he sent a copper torch and message, recalling Allied wartime unity (item: "My pleasant association with the outstanding soldier, Marshal Zhukov...