Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ray Clapper was convinced that journalism is the most important of all professions, that fair and honest reporting is its highest skill. His own quiet integrity helped to make him one of the soundest, most independent interpreters of the national and international scene. Unlike many of his colleagues, he refused to be partisan, tried to keep himself free to praise objectively, to criticize with stinging sincerity...
...Ray Clapper learned his trade in the hard, competitive school of the wire services. At 23, a cub in Kansas City, he joined the United Press, four years later scored a notable beat on the choice of Warren Harding in the G.O.P.'s smoke-filled room. He ran the Washington beats, was the U.P.'s chief in the capitol for five years. His Scripps-Howard column, started in 1936, quickly built an audience of 10,000,000 in 187 papers...
...notable for his intense respect for the little citizen, for the sanity of the U.S. mass mind. Ray Clapper's guiding maxim: "Never overestimate the people's knowledge, nor underestimate their intelligence." His rival columnists, without dissent, praised his competence and balance. The U.S. had lost not only an outstanding journalist, but also a plainspeaking, commonsensible spokesman for the people...
Said the Rev. Ray Gibbons, the Council's director: "If you regard politics as a Christian responsibility to the State, then we can implement our Gospel with Christianity in action...
...first two minutes of the period. Belanger threw in a foul and then the Crimson sent five successive baskets through the hoop before the sailors tallied next on a shot by the same Belanger. Then Harvard added two more, to bring the tally to 36 to 32. Ray Moley scored three of the seven baskets on the three successive attempts...