Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...three months pregnant. By Elizabethan standards, Anne's pregnancy was no great scandal, but her age -an antique 26 or so to Will's 18-was. The sole clue as to how they got on together is a rather ambiguous bequest in Shakespeare's will: "Item, I give unto my wife my second-best bed with the furniture." Since Will spent most of his mature years in London, leaving Anne and their children behind in Stratford, it might be argued that she had always had the second-best...
...depending principally on the tried and tested. On display is the Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass jet engine, already powering newer models of both the DC-8 and Boeing 707. Sales of nonelectrical machinery jumped last year to $125 million, replacing Scotch as Britain's second largest export item to the U.S. Machinery manufacturers, trying harder than ever, were showing an extremely wide range of machines at the Coliseum from those that counted currency to those that made cigarettes...
...tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March, he helped amass a majority among the 50 aldermen by inserting an item into the city budget providing 27 of them with more than $3,000 apiece to represent Rio at the Brussels World's Fair...
...been - a fact that fails to bother its sponsors. Says an Air Force officer involved in the program: "With the Discoverer, we sort of rigged our own public relations trap, because recovery was the last item on our laundry list of objectives. But Discoverer is really the test bed from which an awful lot of earth satellite systems will flower...
...Near Von Ormy, Texas, Bobby Yow reported to police that burglars had robbed his house of objects worth $150, plus an additional item of undetermined value: his watchdog...