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Word: paragraphed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Creator. How was it that a 23-year-old soldier from New Mexico, who had never harmed a flea in his life, could achieve such fame-and such authority? A paragraph of Up Front casts some light on the mystery. After five years in the Army, Bill Mauldin fully understands the infantryman, and he has a sharp eye, a good ear and a facile pen for transmitting his understanding. He wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Bill, Willie & Joe | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

From the last paragraph of Æs Triplex, by Robert Louis Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...Sayings of Franklin D. Roosevelt," slyly picking the ones they had frequently berated, including the "again and again and again" anti-war pledge.) The Christian Science Monitor, to which death is a taboo subject, ran an eight-column banner: "TRUMAN PLEDGES U.S. TO ROOSEVELT POLICY." Only in the second paragraph was there a fleeting reference to "the sudden, unwarned passing of Mr. Roosevelt." Cerebral hemorrhage was not mentioned, but the Monitor spoke guardedly of "what had happened in the 'Little White House' in Warm Springs, Ga." The New-Dealing New York Post headed its Army-Navy casualty list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How the News Spread | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...emerging comity of nations." Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him. These included Churchill, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else's. Sometimes N.C.A.S.F. seemed to be drubbing Reporter White over the head with a peppermint candy stick. (White: "The women are drab, sallow and tired." Rebuttal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tempest in a Samovar | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Despite its gestures toward the French, the Crimea declaration made it clear that the Big Three did not yet rate France as one of the trustees, even in western Europe. Even the cordial paragraph inviting "the Provisional Government of the French Republic" to join in the guardianship of liberated Europe implied that the Big Three could get along without France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: The Yalta Doctrine | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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