Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fixed date for Easter if secular governments and other Christian bodies agreed. In reality, most of these votes simply rubber-stamped ideas that had been approved in principle at the 1962 session. The rest of the time, the bishops listened to a repetitious debate on the first item on the session's agenda, the schema De Ecclesia (On the Church). Few of the fathers could follow the Latin debates, and there was a significant upsurge of business at St. Peter's coffee bars. Richard Cardinal Gushing went home to his $7,000-a-day charity fund-raising...
Since Galbraith feels that a program with projects scattered about the countryside must be supervised on the scene, and since the itinerant professor enjoys the sport of traveling anyway, touring the country became a big item on his schedule. "Besides," he explained, "you can understand little from the capital...
...bewildered air of good sense wrapped in metrical nonsense nor Bishop's malicious delight in destroying his targets in a single, whiplashing line. His tone is more urbane and more lyrical, a bit reminiscent of Britain's John Betjeman. A name, a scrap of a news item, a thought from a book is enough to set his graceful mages turning and his lines moving to impeccable rhythms. A sentence by New York Times Book Reviewer Orville Prescott praising two novels for being 'neither overly ambitious nor overly ong" prompts...
...single-breasted frock coat is the most important item in this outfit. Like tails, the morning coat dates back to the 18th century. But modern versions have lengthened lapels and are closed by a single button...
...Fall River, Mass., Gene Murphy, the telephone company's business manager, finally found out what was playing hob with the service when he chanced on an item in the teenagers' column of a suburban weekly that gave the new beep number-a radio station's recorded weather-reporting service. He discovered that in one week the number of "busy" calls made to the station had jumped from 1,495 to 27,928. Murphy boosted the sound of the busy signal, but the teen-agers just shouted louder. So he had technicians do a job of special rewiring...