Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other producers followed, and the Administration did not press its fight. At 1.8%, the bar price rise was small indeed. But the industry is now on notice to be wary of taking the rumored next step: a boost in sheet and strip steel, which as a key auto-industry item would be certain to have wide impact...
...flood of gizmos followed-bicycle rim linings made of woven paper, which bike-happy Danes found would save wear on tires, paper hammocks, one of the first pressure cookers to appear in Europe, even a skillet with special grease-catching depressions to improve frying of steaks. That lowly item has been cooking up brisk sales in Denmark and seven other countries for more than 15 years...
...troubles right from the start, one of them being L.B.J.'s habit of calling him "Charlie." But for the surprising span of 25 months, in Washington and Acapulco, New York and Hollywood, Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, and Hollywood Climber George Hamilton, 28, were a more or less serious item on the nation's front pages...
That very fearlessness makes the swordfish a regular item in supermarkets. Ordinarily he feeds down deep, and then when the mood strikes him, rises to the surface for a snooze in the sun, never dreaming that anyone would dare commit lese majeste. Commercial "stick" boats run right up to the basking fish and let fly with harpoons. But, ah, for the sport fisherman, armed only with rod, reel, and a passion for punishment, it is an altogether different kettle of fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money...
...typical concert ends with The Star Spangled Banner or Stars and Stripes Forever, the clues to its popularity are easy to see. For one, it is free. For another, even clinkers are fun to people who are there as participants, friends and relatives. Moreover, concerts give a town an item of civic pride. "It's a true gathering of the real family life of America," says one mother, who might be quoting The Music Man line: "Gotta figger out a way t'keep the young ones moral after school!" The old find charm in the band-concert tradition...