Word: paragraphing
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...Globe-Democrat's city desk began to get calls a few minutes after Kappesser's speech, hurriedly dispatched another man to cover the concert. In its midnight edition, H.R.B.'s two-paragraph review was replaced by a glowing, eleven-paragraph story headlined: CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT IS MATURE AND IMPRESSIVE...
...Saturday, the CRIMSON by mistake attributed a statement to Dean Erwin Griswold in the fifth paragraph of its story on a talk by Osmond F. Fraenkel '08. The quotation was actually that of Fraenkel...
...FOLLOWED A SENTENCE DEALING WITH PASSPORT SELLING, MESSRS. LO & LO AND PERHAPS SOME OTHERS OUT HERE FEEL THAT I MEANT TO STATE THAT LO & LO WERE ENGAGED IN THAT NEFARIOUS BUSINESS. SUCH IS NOT THE CASE, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR MAKING SUCH AN INTERPRETATION POSSIBLE. EACH SENTENCE IN THE PARAGRAPH REFERRED TO WAS INTENDED AS A SEPARATE VIGNETTE, AND THE REFERENCE TO LO & LO WAS MERELY TO ILLUSTRATE THAT THEY AND OTHERS IN THEIR PROFESSION WERE DOING A THRIVING BUSINESS AS SOLICITORS IN THIS BELEAGUERED CITY...
When fans of fast fiction see a paragraph of this kind lumbering up the page like something escaped from an old copy of Who's Who, they usually skip lightly over it and take up again at a point where the going is not quite so statuesque. The trouble with James Hilton's new novel is that anybody who tries to skip such dull parts will be obliged to skip the whole book...
...Iran, the third Truce Committee member, brought the new cease-fire plan before U.N. Its first four provisions were little different from the last truce plan. They included an immediate ceasefire, withdrawal of all "non-Korean" troops, and a new Korean government "in accordance with U.N. principles." But Paragraph Five was a stunner. It provided for a Four-Power conference of Red China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, immediately after the ceasefire, to settle Far Eastern problems "including, among others, those of Formosa and of representation of China in the United Nations...