Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mercurial President Soekarno was too preoccupied to comment. He was busy discussing his favorite hobby-painting-with a visiting artist. But elsewhere in Java last week Indonesians were delirious with joy. After 19 long months of bloody warfare, at least a measure of peace and independence had come to Indonesia...
...paper to be shrill. The idea for Editor Hutton's magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes, as U.S. Editor, will cable 8,000 words a week of U.S. news and comment to London, where it will be translated into the British dialect...
...time Senator Donnell's energy began to run down, Republican Whip Ken Wherry was pleading with Democrats not to encourage a new flood of oratory by undue questioning. But when Donnell finally subsided, with the unchallenged comment that it must be a "great relief to members of the Senate," the parliamentary dillydallying began. It was not until week's end that the Senate came to a vote...
...male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...
...Order. How did the accounts balance? The U.S. now required five things of its press: "1) a truthful, comprehensive and intelligent account of the day's events in a context which gives them meaning; 2) a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism; 3) a means of projecting the opinions and attitude of the groups in the society to one another; 4) a method of presenting and clarifying the goals and values of the society; 5) a way of reaching every [citizen] by the currents of information, thought and feeling which the press supplies...