Word: clippinger
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Behind the closed door of his office, headlong Louis Ruppel gave short, private courses in his razzle-dazzle school of journalism. Tearing out a clipping from the New York Times, he bellowed to one writer in his best Front Page manner: "Follow this up!" Summoning another staffer whose bags were...
Twenty-four hours after Ava Miller's story appeared in the Times, a Bellevue Hospital colleague handed the clipping to Dr. Jacob Remler, a prison-ward psychiatrist. If it was about a patient, said Dr. Remler, he didn't want to bother; he was too busy. No, no...
The four turned over their beads to a Buddhist priest in attendance. Tojo also handed the priest his glasses and his false teeth, to give to Mrs. Tojo. (He had already sent his wife a lock of hair and a fingernail clipping as mementos-TIME, NOV. 22.)
The little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon him.
The climbers named these mountains from a newspaper clipping that described the last group to attempt a scaling: "They told stories of hardship and privation. They were forced to ration themselves."