Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland and the Lowlands, Germany proved that the side with command of the air can operate successfully on the surface. Britain proved it again in the retreat from Dunkirk. In the Battle of Britain, Germany came close to proving Mitchell down to the last paragraph, but failed because she went at the job with too little vision (and too few airplanes) and because Britain took command...
...Lincoln's crony. Because old Medill's editorial declared the need to "denounce all who stand in the way of the triumph of the good cause," the Tribune last week said it expressed current Tribune policy even better than it did 80 years ago. The final paragraph marked a new high in the Colonel's coupon-clipping from the Tribune's Lincolnian inheritance. Declared Medill: "We bid our contemporaries, then, who would rather be victorious over THE TRIBUNE than over Jeff Davis, howl on. . . . We go our own way, at our own time...
...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...
...asked to print nothing except "when authorized by appropriate authority." The range of subjects includes the weather, damage to military objects, movements of the President of the U.S. and allied military or diplomatic missions; the progress of war production; location of minefields, of archives and art treasures. Sample paragraph...
Closest to a pro-war declaration is a paragraph which reads...