Word: paragraphing
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...decisions, prefers to ad lib them from the bench. With an occasional glance at his foolscap notes, he spoke for five days in a row last week, had another four or five days to go. His high-pitched emphases and muttered diminuendos even included instructions to the stenographers: "period, paragraph . . . quote, parenthesis . . . unquote." His whole audience was fascinated by his virtuoso command of the case. But only the Alcoa men were pleased...
...DELEGATE TO WILLIAMSTOWN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS I REGRET MISLEADING IMPRESSION CREATED IN OPENING PARAGRAPH OF OTHERWISE FINE REPORT. YOUR ARTICLE SAID NEW HIGH IN RELIGIOUS INTERVENTIONISM WAS SET BY INSTITUTE AND THAT A BALLOT MIGHT HAVE REVEALED AN ACTUAL MAJORITY FOR A SHOOTING WAR NOW. MY OBSERVATION WAS THAT THE INSTITUTE SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS COMPRISED ALL SHADES OF OPINION-INTERVENTIONISTS, ISOLATIONISTS, PACIFISTS, NONPACIFISTS -A FAIR SAMPLING OF ALL POSITIONS HELD BY AMERICANS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHETHER AN ACTUAL MAJORITY COULD HAVE BEEN MARSHALED FOR AN IMMEDIATE DECLARATION...
...Schwarze Korps, organ of the Black Shirts, published this revealing paragraph, showing how Hitler's crusade has backfired: "It is absolutely wrong to assume that Germany is fighting Russia to liberate Europe from Bolshevism. . . . We are fighting, not to save culture, civilization or democracy, but merely to save Germany...
...Spoil of Europe is no hammock reading. It describes the Nazi technique of politico-economic rape of occupied countries. A ponderous tome, its almost every paragraph is studded with ferroconcrete facts and charges that are almost too heavy. Random samples...
...rumor was started by the Christian Science Monitor, which devoted a two paragraph item to the subject in a top-column, front-page story on Saturday. The Monitor gave no source for its story however, merely using the phrase "it was learned...