Word: paragraphic
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...make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came over the wires as a one-paragraph item; he telephoned Dr. Dafoe for the details), and Douglas Corrijan's wrong-way flight (Reutlinger placed phone calls to three airports in Ireland, sure that Corrigan would come down there...
...Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
...captain blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...
Same day, MacArthur's censors let Japanese editors print an item that was forbidden the day before: the suicide note left by Prince Fumimaro Konoye, thrice Premier of Japan. Japanese papers were still forbidden to print one pertinent paragraph, in which he had spoken of the "boastfulness of the conquerors...
From Washington went notes to Moscow and London, proposing that the armed forces of the Big Three be entirely with drawn from Iran by Jan. 1. The U.S. note contained an extraordinary paragraph reminding Moscow that small nations would trust the Big Five on UNO's Security Council only if the Big Five behaved themselves...