Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the heading "Armor" was this classic paragraph: "Scout vehicles dart in, spot the enemy. Report, Call in the heavyweights. Tanks, Big Tanks. Up to 57 tons of steel and 750 horsepower come thundering in on each set of treads, Stop. Fire, Maneuver, Stand your ground, Slug it out, Mighty machines. But battles...
...anticipated, the paper is still viewed as slight by many journalists, although its executives reply that length does not equal depth. Says Editor John Quinn: "We are not up to undertaking projects of the dimensions needed to win prizes. They don't give awards for the best investigative paragraph...
...problem is simply to find the right ones. This takes three or four drafts usually, the first stiff and awkward, "like some English-class essay," and the last chatty and, in a carefully chiseled way, spontaneous. Advice to imitators: to avoid marooning yourself without provisions in a trackless last paragraph, think ahead of time of your cheery ending, the gag that leaves the reader newly hopeful that joining the French Foreign Legion may not be the only answer. Bombeck is proud of never missing a deadline, and she makes a point of quoting the praise of an elderly Detroit Free
...four-paragraph statement on East-West relations was equally vague. It said that "the first need is for solidarity and resolve among us all." It then stated a determination "to pursue the search for extended political dialogue and long-term cooperation with the Soviet Union and her allies." Noting that the U.S. "has offered to restart nuclear-arms-control talks anywhere, at any tune, without preconditions," it expressed the hope that the Soviet Union "will act in a constructive and positive...
...report was classified top secret and not even given to the Knesset's Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security. But a meticulously worded 15-paragraph summary released by the Israeli government last week caused enough of a stir. According to a commission appointed by Defense Minister Moshe Arens, two of the four Arab terrorists who hijacked an Israeli bus in April were not slain in the ensuing siege, as originally thought. They were captured alive and killed later while in Israeli hands. Although the two-man panel concluded that no commanding officer had ordered the terrorists murdered...