Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reality, Kennedy was as confident and convinced as ever in his career. "West Berlin has now become-as never before -the great testing place of Western courage and will," he said, in a paragraph that should be long remembered. "I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any dangerous spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. We do not want to fight-but we have fought before. And others in earlier times have made the same dangerous mistake of assuming that the West...
With just one paragraph, your fine cover story on Bill Mauldin dismisses the importance of the greatest American cartoonist since Nast...
...provide for the Instruction of Youth, and for the Promotion of Good Education" was passed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1789. The following paragraph from this law, which applied to Harvard University, is still in force...
...Chicago Daily News, which Stuffy joined in 1944, the legend soon grew that Stuffy would throw out any sentence of more than 14 words. It was true that the News's new editor liked choppy prose, especially in the lead paragraph. Too long, said Stuffy to a reporter who had proudly tendered an eight-word first paragraph for a story about economic conditions: "Will there be a boom or a bust?" After repeated tries, the reporter boiled it down to one word: "Boom?" This was followed by a second one-word paragraph: "Bust?" The third paragraph was a shade...
...following paragraph, however, Krock observes "that by training, equipping and transporting the anti-Castro rebels, the United States violated Article 15, and perhaps to a degree (sic!) the Caracas Resolution requirement of prior consultation. But Castro's acts, only a few of which are enumerated above, pose the open threat of the establishment in this hemisphere..." In other words, no matter how clearly threatened Cuba may have been (and after all, they were invaded after the press spoon-fed the American public an image of Castro-the-maniac who was stirring up fears of an imminent invasion from the North...