Word: paragraphed
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...days later, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John Shattuck burst forth with an entire paragraph discussing the University's position. He said Harvard was willing to include a seniority pay increase as "an integral part" of the 4 percent raise...
...military. Even now, a last "last word" and a forthright mea culpa would help immeasurably. In seeking to understand his candidate's self- defeating silence, a senior Clinton aide turned again to Hart and recalled the miniautobiography Hart had written shortly before the 1988 campaign. In the last paragraph of that otherwise forgettable book, Hart said, "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck he can play with.' As usual," continued Hart, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Clinton has already admitted an overeagerness to please...
Translation: "Will you delete that paragraph so we can fit another picture of a cute baby on the front page? And don't forget to capitalize and italicize the caption...
Dozens of younger colleagues remember him as a kindly teacher who showed them the ropes about everything from how to write a lead paragraph (taut and lean) to where to find the world's greatest tomato soup (New Delhi's Ashok Hotel). "When I came here in 1971," says editor at large Strobe Talbott, "Bill made a point of guiding me through the mysteries of the place. He had a mentor quality that was very comforting...
...Sancton, a senior editor, recalls that Bill liked to quote Mahatma Gandhi's admonition: "Simplify your needs." Long after the rest of us switched to electric typewriters, and later computers, he continued pounding out copy on his beloved Royal manual. A blindingly fast typist, he would write one perfect paragraph per page and then rearrange the order of the pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline. It was during one such occasion in 1977, while...