Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show what he meant, Mirror Editor Lait clutched his readers by the throat in the first paragraph of a spicy divorce story...
...himself and specifically not for LIFE) had asserted that the President was preparing to swing away from the For-restal-Marshall-Lovett-Vandenberg policy to a softer policy toward the Russians. That article, said Truman sharply, is absolutely without foundation, in fact, in nearly every instance and every paragraph...
...guarded paragraph, worded in the Stiffest gobbledygook, set off a loud crackle of scientific and near-scientific speculation last week. In his report on unification of the services, Secretary of Defense Forrestal said...
...author of this paragraph, TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, will herself keep an old custom of her native Lancashire by sallying forth with a hunk of bread, a nugget of coal and a handful of salt jammed into a pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune...
...said that Mr. Amory's article is almost incredibly pompous. It is. If the above examples don't do double duty and convince you of the article's pompousness, pick out a paragraph at random and start to read...