Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the truth is painful, your Aug. 30 article concerning Louisiana almost hospitalized me. My only comment is assent...
When he turned up in Manhattan early last week for the funeral of onetime Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Tom Dewey had only one brief comment on his campaign. He promised newsmen that when it got under way, it would be "rugged and extensive...
...after his widow agreed (too late for most afternoon papers to report it) that he should lie in state there. Whether 82,000 people filed past his bier, or 97,000, or 115,000, depended on which paper you read. Reporters patrolled the shuffling line to extract suitably printable comment...
Follow That Car. Correspondents got no briefings before the Kremlin visits, and no comment afterwards. They haunted the embassy entrances, set out in hot pursuit whenever a bigwig drove away, trailed the envoys to every lunch and dinner date. Arriving at the British embassy after one tiring encounter with Molotov, Ambassador Smith, usually an even-tempered man, snapped irritably: "You just sit here. I'll tell you everything." Then he told the newsmen nothing...
Block That Rumor. Nevertheless, the commentators had to comment (Drew Pearson confidently began a column: "Here is the inside story . . ."). The London Times's diplomatic correspondent wrote (in London) that "The Moscow talks yesterday advanced a stage nearer their conclusion, which cannot now be much longer delayed." The Manchester Guardian's stay-at-home diplomatic correspondent was also pawing the air: "It has been felt in some quarters that the meeting might prove decisive, but there is nothing to show that it did, in fact, produce any results...