Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King read slowly for twelve minutes. He proposed legislation "to protect the coast from erosion by the sea ... to encourage the development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...
...Riding home in my 'present car,' which the Rapid Transit System undoubtedly purchased years before I was born, I read the second paragraph [about the typical TIME-reading man], looked down at one of my two summer suits (a greasy pair of overalls) and then read on, looking hopefully for exceptions. I found none. Nevertheless, I hung on my strap and continued reading TIME, as I have been doing for years...
...proclamation was a rush job entrusted to Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, whose English is perfect and who has been called one of the three top authorities on modern Hebrew. After an all-night session with three assistants in his Tel Aviv flat, Shertok came to the last paragraph, which contained the phrase "Rock of Israel." He started to translate it that way, but met an objection from the girl at the typewriter. Ruth Goldschmidt, an English-born Israeli who heads the official government news agency, said Rock of Israel would mean nothing to non-Jews. She suggested that the phrase...
Another patient was under the delusion that his mother had been murdered by a doctor. Now a gossip columnist, he is beginning to realize that his delusion is irrational. Sometimes just reading the paper* has helped. A paragraph in the June issue jibed: "To -- on Hall 7, are you still chasing spirits all over the place? Catch any?" Roused out of his seclusion by the taunt, the patient on Hall 7 explained to his doctor that he wasn't seeing ghosts as normal people think of them, but "seeing" the animosities of people he came into contact with...
...penultimate paragraph of the book is a model of restrained bitterness...