Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That paragraph changed everything. It meant that the President of the U.S. had taken the whole atomic-bomb discussion out of the unreal context of "Shall we share the secret of the bomb with the Russians, or shall we keep it?" The secret about the secret was that there was no lasting secret...
...Sneeze, One Paragraph. The correspondents have something more to gripe about than the White House colorlessness. They are exceedingly jealous of any signs of presidential favoritism-and there have been some. On the President's trip to Independence, fortnight ago, Harry Truman invited A.P.'s Tony Vaccaro and U.P.'s Merriman Smith to join in a poker game. The I.N.S. reporter (a substitute) was left out, presumably because the President did not know him very well. Also left out were specials like the New York Herald Tribune's Washington chief, Bert Andrews, the Chicago...
...When I was co-captain of the crew, we beat Navy, which was pretty good going, and were all set to face Cornell. Spec ran a story about how we were going to race Cornell and it didn't say anything about our beating Navy until the very last paragraph...
...would read approximately as follows: "Incident. In study hall today, George whispered frequently and created a disturbance by various antics which attracted the attention of the pupils sitting near him." This is a brief, clear statement of what took place. . . . The interpretation can well be placed in a separate paragraph carefully labeled thus: "Interpretation. George seems to be a boy who wants much attention from other pupils, particularly girls. He manages to get some of the attention he craves, but his classmates seem more annoyed and disgusted than amused...
...President's report contained a concluding paragraph much more significant than the one newsmen made into headlines. It said: "The attainment of the long-range security and economic objectives of the United States and the other United Nations is a task of the greatest importance if we are not to lose the victory. . . . We shall seek ... to achieve settlements . . . which will best attain these objectives...