Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spoil of Europe is no hammock reading. It describes the Nazi technique of politico-economic rape of occupied countries. A ponderous tome, its almost every paragraph is studded with ferroconcrete facts and charges that are almost too heavy. Random samples...
...rumor was started by the Christian Science Monitor, which devoted a two paragraph item to the subject in a top-column, front-page story on Saturday. The Monitor gave no source for its story however, merely using the phrase "it was learned...
Sirs: After reading your pidgin English version of Mose Simms's departure from St. Mary's University [TIME, April 28], I want to protest the wisecrack made in the first paragraph of your story, which was apparently written after a night of struggles with paranoia...
...receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald, pausing now and then to extract a paragraph with his pen-knife. About 9:15 he went for a walk, an eternal walk, up and down, around, through the Yard, constantly smoking but never inhaling, smiling, chatting, examining the same buildings and paths, finding something old to chuckle over. He spoke precisely, in balanced periods, and his stories...
Last week their first batch of twelve anti-sabotage posters was in use. Each had a sharply pointed Hungerford cartoon, an admonitory paragraph by Sherman, ended with the slogan: "You are a production soldier . . . America's first line of defense is here." Sample: A dope in overalls talking his head off while Hitler...