Word: paragraphing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Herschel Johnson: "So . . . the innocent little Slavic-Albanian brothers . . . are menaced by this wicked fascist Greek wolf. It is curious and almost like a fairy tale come to life." The councilors went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder...
...teachers of Philadelphia's Central High School had stood about all they could stand. "Students come to us," they angrily wrote the Board of Education, "without fundamental skills. They cannot read simple verse, or a prose paragraph in history and get the sense. They falter in simple arithmetical processes. . . ." The reason, said the teachers, was that "students assume they will be promoted without study...
...protest, Dreptatea used up most of its front page to publish a document which contained a remarkable paragraph. It seemed to be an insanely reckless attack on Joseph Stalin. The paragraph...
Your little paragraph on the Peabody Award winners in radio [TIME, April 21] was a most misleading little paragraph. . . . Although five of the 14 awards went to programs carried on independent stations, you neither mentioned any of these nor even indicated that such programs had received awards. You cited only the network programs which won awards...
...plants I visited." In more difficult business problems-"for instance, when one man must do something to injure the other"-she consults her husband, who studied law. Mr. Reback, whom his wife calls "Tootsie," is a reader of the Wall Street Journal, and "he puts it all in a paragraph. Often I don't in the least understand what it means, but I break up that paragraph and scatter it through the book...