Word: paragraphic
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When TIME printed a letter from a reader extolling the merits of the Windsor knot for neckties (TIME, March 3), the editors thought a note should be added to explain how the knot is tied. After struggling to condense the explanation into a short paragraph (right hand over the left hand, etc.), they gave it up as a bad job, recommended that interested readers write to the Men's Tie Foundation in New York City for diagrams...
...University of Kansas, she went East and got a job on a small Long Island paper. In 1927, she graduated to the New York Daily News. "There," she recalls, "we learned to hit 'em in the eye. We belonged to the who-the-hell-reads-the-second-paragraph school." She still tries to hit 'em in the eye, writes fast in a flat, straightforward style...
Parmark (n.) : One of a list of items preceded by paragraph symbols...
...made the debating team in his freshman year. The night before the Big Debate with Notre Dame, the coach called him aside and told him bluntly: "Sheen, you're absolutely the worst speaker I ever heard." Whereupon he stood Sheen in a corner, took one paragraph from his prepared speech and made Sheen repeat it for an hour. Then he said: "Do you know what's wrong with you?" Sheen thought hard and said: "I'm not natural...
Historic Decision. With scarcely a pause for breath, Harry Truman shattered the thought. He turned from his typed script and read hurriedly from a sheet on which he had written with a pen a historic paragraph...