Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaten. Newspapers recorded the death in a routine paragraph. The case might have ended there, but Melendes' unclaimed body was sent to Washington University's Medical School. Never had the University's pathologists seen such a battered, pulpy corpse, such a sea of hemorrhages. Bruises were almost uncountable. Their autopsy showed that the entire body, from head to toes, had been pummeled and beaten, on the ears and neck, forehead and temples, arms, hands, chest,' kidneys, thighs, legs. Scarcely a spot was untouched; hardly a blood vessel intact. The doctors noted that many a bruise...
...Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, all warmed up and ready to go, hit the air with a diatribe on Americans and the War Effort. Blowing like a grampus, garrumphy, irascible Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...
...beginning we had a policy of ending many of our stories with a final paragraph headed "Significance," but we gave that up about 15 years ago-partly because it was too mechanical, partly because it did seem that all our stories should be written so their significance would be clear long before the last paragraph...
...rationing board. Her ideas: reduce OPA's printed matter and its "complex reiteration"; reduce the "verbiage to a point of clarity"; have a little faith in the average merchant's honesty and stop prying into his affairs; cut down on exhortations to the consumer; throw out the "paragraph dictators and their Bourbonesque indifference to the attitude of the general public...
With the sun a shining and the breeze a blowing, and eight and three-quarter hours of liberty ahead, please excuse us for tossing off a paragraph or so of news, and then a few ditties to fill up space. We promise to be more conscientious next week...