Word: paragraphing
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...guarded paragraph, worded in the Stiffest gobbledygook, set off a loud crackle of scientific and near-scientific speculation last week. In his report on unification of the services, Secretary of Defense Forrestal said...
...author of this paragraph, TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, will herself keep an old custom of her native Lancashire by sallying forth with a hunk of bread, a nugget of coal and a handful of salt jammed into a pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune...
...said that Mr. Amory's article is almost incredibly pompous. It is. If the above examples don't do double duty and convince you of the article's pompousness, pick out a paragraph at random and start to read...
...King read slowly for twelve minutes. He proposed legislation "to protect the coast from erosion by the sea ... to encourage the development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...
...proclamation was a rush job entrusted to Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, whose English is perfect and who has been called one of the three top authorities on modern Hebrew. After an all-night session with three assistants in his Tel Aviv flat, Shertok came to the last paragraph, which contained the phrase "Rock of Israel." He started to translate it that way, but met an objection from the girl at the typewriter. Ruth Goldschmidt, an English-born Israeli who heads the official government news agency, said Rock of Israel would mean nothing to non-Jews. She suggested that the phrase...