Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choices are preceeded by a paragraph explaining the "advantage of having the limited breakfast." To the side of each response, a brief sentence explains the implication of adopting that choice. According to the survey, opting for hot breakfasts implies "shorter breakfast hours plus an additional charge for board" while continuing the limited breakfasts means longer hours and no increase in board rates...
...This paragraph is not intended as part of the column and probably should be removed also...
Their concern increases their difficulty in making each step of the way, Perry said. "When writing a paragraph seems to determine the rest of your life, it's pretty hard to finish the paragraph," he said...
...sympathizes reluctantly with the publishers of this posthumous book. They have added a two-page preface, mostly of chatty, mildly condescending detail about their long relationship with the immensely profitable author. But, yes, buried in the middle of the third paragraph is the real reason for the note: she has chosen not to discuss the one episode in her 85 years that everyone will be looking for. There is nothing about her notorious lapse into amnesia in 1926, and Dodd, Mead might well have tried to head off a great deal of fruitless inquiry. Dame Agatha's first husband...
...thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph of Dame Agatha's worst prose extolling the "small, and slender" Elizabeth II, who told a story about soot falling from her chimney to put her guest at ease...