Word: paragraphed
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...March 26, 1964, he and Bobby Kennedy signed the eleven-point "Memorandum of Understanding." The key paragraph said that "the completed manuscript shall be reviewed by Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and the text shall not be published unless and until approved by them." Another said that "the book may not be published before Nov. 22, 1968," unless the family agreed. A third ruled that "no motion picture or TV adaptation shall ever be made based on the book," and gave the Kennedys the right of approval over sale of other rights-including magazine serialization...
...mutual intimidation was most painful at the first class meetings where students glowered intelligently at each other but said very little. Rosenblatt tackled the problem head-on this fall by making each student submit the first paragraph of a short story to the class for criticism...
...very first paragraph gets under way ungrammatically with the statement that "there is a right way to use words and construct sentences, and many wrong ways." Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes...
Marcos responded by discarding a memorized four-paragraph speech for a longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule...
...Judging from Mayor Yorty's comment, "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor," I conclude that Mayor Sam 1) has never read beyond the second paragraph of the city charter, or 2) is out of his mind. Considering his meaningless bickering with the City Council; his uncalled for, pseudo expert opinions on Viet Nam; and his strange proclivity for the word "plot," I incline toward the second possibility...