Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also had its doldrums. And, because it was the acknowledged leader in TV reporting, it had its neck way out. Overly ballyhooed, it flashed its "exclusive" sign at times to herald an interview that proved neither exclusive nor very exciting. LIFE and NBC representatives appeared almost always in pairs, though often there obviously was not even enough work for one man. And in the end, its commentators stayed out on the Dewey limb long after other stations had shinnied down to the ground...
...concertgoers, who don't get to hear much of his music, Arnold Schoenberg has a reputation as a musical wild man with some sort of grudge against melody. He has none of the look of a wild man about him, and wild is no word for the sobersided way he goes about plotting his revolution in music...
...Fashioned Way. Trying to sum up the failure and its lessons, TIME Correspondent Edwin C. Heinke, Assistant Managing Editor of the Indianapolis Times, wired: "The returns made me realize how good, old-fashioned legwork-the kind I hadn't done-was still the most important part of our press structure. I think that a good deal of our press reporting has strictly gone to hell; there is too much thumbsucking, too little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been...
...Washington bureau) : "O.K., they were all wrong (most definitely, including this writer) on the Truman election. So what? So were the voters who elected Truman." Sneered George Sokolsky: "Truman gave out during the campaign, becoming boisterous and vulgar. Some say that he made votes for himself that way. If true, that is a reflection on the intelligence of the American people...
...work on a lonely, eight-hour-day, six-day-a-week schedule. In three years he had completed the New Testament and went right to work on the Old-turning out an average 24 verses a day, though sometimes he struggled all morning to get a verse just the way he wanted...