Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon stopped. A newsman asked for comment on an Eisenhower-for-President club which had recently sprung up in the capital, complete with secretaries and literature. Replied Ike, with some heat: "I deplore these activities. I earnestly think it is a mistaken idea...
...politician could have bettered the General's comment on his house-hunting problem: "Fundamentally," he explained with that famous grin which makes his eyes twinkle, "I'm a farmer boy. I want a place out of town where I can raise a few tomatoes and beans and get close to the soil." When he was asked whether he would be addressed as "President" or "General" after he assumed his duties at Columbia, he replied: "As long as I live, I shall answer most readily to the name...
Band tradition says that if the twirler tosses and catches the baton, the team wins. Skinner pointed to the Yale and Rutgers games last year without comment, the only times the twirler dropped his baton all season...
...satisfies many of the requirements of the ideal news item, even if no other newspaper [knows] it. It gets Ken's name in the paper, informs his neighbors what he is doing, and entices the attention of people who never heard of him, if only to make them comment that this is one hell of a newspaper...
...press), Meyers had revamped the Blast's staff. As editor-in-chief he hired aggressive, 36-year-old Orville Weller, a Navy veteran, allowed Weller to hire a group of associate editors, mostly C.I.O. members. The Blast plans to keep on covering union affairs fully, with no editorial comment...