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Word: itemizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronauts will leave a third item, the solar-wind experiment, on the lunar surface for only two hours or so. Soon after emerging from Eagle, they will place on the lunar surface a sheet of aluminum foil suspended from a stand. It will be exposed to the constant stream of particles expelled by the sun and should trap rare gases such as argon, krypton, xenon, neon and helium. Returned to earth in a vacuum box, the captive gases will be analyzed to give scientists new insights into the sun and the "wind" that it blows through the solar system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOON: SECRETS TO BE FOUND | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...ITEM: At St. Paul's, a fashionable New Hampshire prep school, grapes are the only part of the meal invariably left untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...ITEM: In San Francisco, a Safeway official observes: "We have customers who come to the store for no other reason than to buy grapes. They'll load up their car with grapes and nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...ITEM: In Oakland, a conscience-ridden housewife explains apologetically to her dinner companions: "I really wanted to have this dessert, and I just decided that one little bunch of grapes wouldn't make that much difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...ITEM: In Honolulu, the Young Americans for Freedom organizes an "emergency grape lift" by jet from the mainland, inviting "all of those starved for the sight of a California grape to come to the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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