Word: particular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who has had to look into the eager, happy faces of anxious relatives and patients who have just read that streptomycin is practically a sure cure for tuberculosis, explain as gently as possible that the wonder drug has its limitations and is unsuitable for their particular sufferer, and watch hope change into sickening despair, can attest to the damage done by overenthusiastic writing on such topics...
...yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway down the field. Final score: Yankees 21, Dodgers...
...Improvements Allowed. The boys are mighty particular about how their songs get plugged. Whenever they can make it, they show up at the studio when a top singer first tries out a new one. Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it when we're staring 'em in the face. Lotsa singers don't know the proper phrasing and even lose a rhyme. So we gotta be around to protect our baby." Says Jule: "Nobody's going to improve our songs to death...
Editor Brucker's remedy for the U.S. editorial page would probably be too drastic for many publishers: newspapers must break "the habit . . . of attaching themselves to one of the major political parties. This is a hangover from the days when there were many papers, each speaking for a particular faction. Today, when we have few papers, it is their obligation not to be a Dr. Goebbels for any group . . . Our journalistic Jeremiahs must breathe more hellfire and damnation than ever. Only they need to get all the facts, and not just some of them, first...
...loves, job and marriage, the tragedy of her life (her child is born dead), and the beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of melodrama (or even of exciting incidents) that its interest is surprising-without plot and without particular distinction in its prose, with characters who seem merely to have wandered on the scene, it is nevertheless absorbing...