Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Times: "It seems that the pregnant throbbing with which the romantic writers made such a play was not so very pregnant after all. Its eerie rhythm is not in fact relayed from campfire to campfire, nor does its sullen tattoo . . . disseminate throughout half a continent between dawn and dusk portentous tidings and dreadful, urgent calls to arms...
...papers rushed out extras with bulletins and big headlines. But compared to the importance of the news, most papers showed a commendable restraint. They followed the advice which Defense Secretary Louis Johnson gave reporters: "I warn you: don't overplay this." Many newspapers gave the story no more play than the devaluation of the pound. (The equally restrained attitude of London's newspapers was summed up by one Fleet Streeter, who made the obvious crack: "Now they've devalued the atom.") The New York Post Home News omitted the usual front-page baseball scores, solemnly explained later...
...charged with engineering an airplane explosion to kill his wife (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Trib also smugly reminded readers that Colonel McCormick was already building a bombshelter for himself and his staffers. The New York Daily News wrote the day's most heartfelt headline, a prayerful play on words: U.S. HAS SUPREMACY, WILL HOLD IT : AMEN. The Communist Worker combined propaganda, craftsmanship and a sly smile: TRUMAN: U.S.S.R. HAS IT; VISHINSKY...
...thinks they want." The council's counsel : give them what the editor thinks they ought to have. "The responsible editor . . . need not indulge in special pleading for the Negro. He need merely apply the same news values . . . the same respect for accuracy, the same sense of fair play and good taste...
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