Word: commas
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...This view is now grudgingly echoed in U.S. foreign policy, but Lippmann's refusal to give weight to the explosive emotions of the cold war drew much criticism when tensions were at their peak. His writing style was elegant and correct to the last comma, but his artful convolutions sometimes trapped readers between unresolved propositions. Press Critic A.J. Liebling once called Lippmann "perhaps the greatest on-the-one-hand-this writer in the world today...
...proletarian internationalism." Twenty Soviet divisions -300,000 men-still occupy the country, and the Soviet ambassador continues to sit in on some meetings of the East German Politburo. The East German ambassador to the U.N. is not expected to deviate from the Soviet position by more than a comma...
Their concern is well founded, because the effects of cholera can be catastrophic. The disease is caused by comma-shaped bacteria that thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bugs do even better in the human intestine...
...broken family, the broken community-the American Humpty Dumpty-this is the theme of Yours, and Mine. That terrible, splitting comma in the title divides up life itself as if it were a community property Rascoe's characters have found no way to share. They never will, either. For if one cannot put together one's past, one cannot put together one's future; so goes the implacable Rascoe...
...shove Weisman on down the line, Daley yelled: "Well, when I do, I sure ain't going to give it to you or your newspaper. You never printed a true thing in your life." Weisman answered: "If you give it to me, I'll print every comma and period-and I presume, since you'll be saying it, it'll be true." "Reporter, huh?", bellowed Daley as Weisman walked away. "If you're a reporter, I am a ballet dancer...