Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without checking with anyone else in the room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...
...Times gets off only a fraction more easily. "By including so much, it sometimes obscures to the point where it might as well be omitting. But first find the story- itself a task demanding unfaltering and intrepid application; then struggle through the opening paragraph- a grave test of nerve and skill; and finally master the rest of the story paragraph by paragraph-an exercise requiring something near to gallantry; and one will, I believe, be as well informed as by reading any other newspaper, and sometimes much better. But there is no reason why it should be made so difficult...
...this Reston duly reported the next day in the Times. He summarized the communique and even mentioned the guards outside the mansion. He waited until the fourth paragraph to drop his bomb...
...versions... reported by this and other correspondents." (This was a key provision, since it stipulated that Congress need not specifically approve the security organization's use of force against an aggressor.) At the end of the story Reston highlighted his triumph by printing the text of the uninformative three-paragraph communique...
Flann O'Brien, the man with three names, might have enjoyed a last posthumous joke in the last paragraph of his brilliant book. He cites a German who was hung up on the number three: "He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular vein with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, good-bye." Even the Irish don't joke about the Trinity except in dead unearnest...