Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first item on our agenda was a bus tour of the Stockton farms and farm laborers' housing. Here we were able to see the miserable conditions under which human beings are forced to live in a nation that likes to boast of its wealth. We walked through a labor camp, and although we had been "warned" what to expect, we were shocked to find how horribly our agricultural workers have been neglected...
With Jack Kennedy thoroughly trounced-by Dick Nixon in the Senate and by Howard Smith in the House-all that remained of the original Kennedy-Johnson list of short-session "must" measures was the only genuine, non-politicking item in the lot: foreign-aid appropriations. At week's end, despite a stern warning from Ike that "a cut of this size will jeopardize the security of the country," both houses voted $3.7 billion for foreign aid-$560 million less than the President had asked for. (Afterward, the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended an additional appropriation to restore $190 million...
...incident you questioned was the one item in my book which I had accepted, without further checking, from a story in TIME, the weekly newsmagazine. It appeared in the issue of March 10, 1952 (p. 25). Was there a more responsible source...
...such a tradition and its emotions, transferred to the Lolita generation, it was also predictable that 1960-5 Tell Laura I Love Her, a collector's item among bad records, would bring a response from Laura. It has come-with the just-released Tell Tommy I Miss Him, whose sales are already climbing toward 50,000 records. Laura lugubriously moans...
...being an alcoholic," she says. Her interest in collecting comes naturally: she is the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item: a $25 cigar-store Indian. As her daughter's stockpile of Early American dolls, quilts, pewter, decoys and trade signs grew, Mrs. Havemeyer asked in exasperation: "How can anyone who has been brought up with Rembrandts and Manets live with such American trash...