Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real Ms. Marple sort of thing," said Patricia K. Grimsted, research associate of Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute. "I found a German-translated report from the Ministry of Culture in Moscow on cultural holdings throughout the Soviet Union...
...description of one of the items in the report caught Grimsted's eye, since it roughly matched the description of the missing Bach archive. Shortly thereafter, Grimsted said, a Ukranian...
...days the reporters stood their posts at Hyannis Port and on Martha's Vineyard, as the old photographs were brought out again and again, and the reporters looked into the camera to say, at some length, that there was no news to report but that it was terribly sad, terribly sad, which is not journalism exactly, but there was a rightness about it. The TV anchors and correspondents are like old uncles and aunts who come to the house after a death in the family and plop down in the living room and say, "I just can't believe...
...that, we need to stay connected to our own families. Elsewhere on this page, we report that older Americans who attend weekly religious services live longer than those who do not--a result of the "social support" they get, say researchers. I'll bet the researchers would find similar benefits among those who get support from extended families. We'll never turn back the clock to keep families from scattering. But parents can help by telling their kids stories about their grandparents, aunts and cousins, and by keeping the relatives informed of the kids' latest activities and interests...
...Begun by E.W. Scripps nearly a century ago, and later fortified in a merger with William Randolph Hearst, Class of 1886, the wire service grew to be the second largest in the world, neck-and-neck with the ubiquitous Associated Press. Its correspondents--Walter Cronkite in Brussels, for example--reported for American newspapers from bureaus around the world. When bullets rang out on the streets of Dallas, UPI was the first to report that John F. Kennedy '40 had been shot--one reporter from UPI and one from AP had been riding in the car following Kennedy...