Word: paragrapher
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...first paragraph of the HJLSA letter, after reciting recent (and we might add tragic) attacks against Israeli citizens, concluded with a statement to the effect that the teach-in appeared to be designed "to show support for these terrorist acts." To call this a crude attempt at innuendo would be a gross under-statement. Does this mean that anyone who wished to listen to an "unpopular" point of view on the Palestinian issue supports terrorism...
Perhaps you could have reduced the facts to a single paragraph and devoted the rest of each article to tribute from teachers and friends. If time constraints made it impossible to prepare an appropriate article on short notice, you might have given notice of death in a small box on the front page and printed a full memorial on the editorial page several days later...
...opening paragraph of the Pi Eta newsletter reads as follows...
...read such a passage in Hustler magazine, it probably would have merited only a mental wince. But coming across the paragraph in the publication of a Harvard undergraduate organization left me shocked and sickened I believe the Harvard campus is, by and large, a good place for women and have always felt comfortable here. So it was sharply disillusioning to discover that any Harvard club would woo its members to a party with the promise of a "bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," ensuring that all will have the chance to "slice into one of these meaty...
...Peter Jennings used two of them in an opening paragraph on Super Tuesday. So did CBS's Dan Rather. NBC's Tom Brokaw employed a couple of them too, and his colleague Roger Mudd followed with a whole string. The popular words and phrases were variations on that old stand-by of political reporting, the expectations game-this candidate did better or worse "than expected," that candidate "had to" win here or capture some specified percentage of the vote there-and they set the tone for the evaluation of the evening's results. In a nomination battle...