Word: paragraphic
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...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...
...asked to print nothing except "when authorized by appropriate authority." The range of subjects includes the weather, damage to military objects, movements of the President of the U.S. and allied military or diplomatic missions; the progress of war production; location of minefields, of archives and art treasures. Sample paragraph...
Closest to a pro-war declaration is a paragraph which reads...
...week for her services, and realized no more clearly than the authors that she was helping run a roto-lactor. Some 40 other high-school kids, delighted to be in the publishing game at similar wages, sent out Mr. Flumiani's oleaginous form letters. The "season paragraph" told the author that the time (any old time) was ripe to bursting for his book to appear. The "fighting paragraph" bucked him up if he seemed to feel his work was unworthy of publication. The "action paragraph" read: "We believe that this book is an original. It reveals an individual mind...
Unfortunately, the third paragraph contained an erroneous statement regarding a particular plant. You wrote: "The Glenn L. Martin with a half billion dollars of defense orders hasn't a single Negro in 18,000 workers." The fact of the matter is that, owing to continuous picketing by the Baltimore branch of the National Negro Congress, the plant in question yielded to such pressure several months ago and has scores of Negro workers on its payroll. I think that, in fairness to Mr. Martin, who also issued a statement at the time enjoining other employers to follow his example, this fact...