Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News candidates will at first write squibs and headlines, gradually handling bigger stories, both sports and news. Natural writing ability is not the only criterion on the news board; interest and constant work soon smooth over technical difficulties...
...Chinese Nationalists finished their withdrawal from the mainland across the 100-mile straits to Formosa in December 1949. (Four months earlier, Dean Acheson had tried to write off the Nationalists with the China white paper-an official attack on a friendly power without precedent in the history of international relations.) The island was important to the defense of the Pacific and doubly important as the base for what was still the best and largest anti-Communist army in Asia. But the State Department maintained a stiff anti-Formosa policy...
James Magee, who is publisher of the weekly Bordentown Register, learned from the letters from Holland that the Van Der Tuyns' fondest hope was to go to America and settle down there. He encouraged them, and the Dutch family studied diligently, soon began to write him in clumsy English...
...have always had two ambitions," says Frederick Lewis Allen, "to edit and to write." He achieved both of them. A staffer on Harper's Magazine for 30 years, Allen has been its top editor for the last 11. He has also turned out dozens of articles and found time to write such well-known books as Only Yesterday, The Great Pierpont Morgan, and The Big Change. Last week, at 62, Writer-Editor Allen's second ambition triumphed over his first. He announced his resignation as editor of Harper's Magazine (although he will continue as an adviser...
...first assignment of the Southbound Working Group looked easy: each mem ber had to write an autobiography. But Liu found that no autobiography was accepted by the group chiefs unless the writer tagged himself a member either of "the squeezing class or the squeezed class," reviled his father and family ties in general, and - if at all connected with the Nationalist government - confessed to being an "accessory thug" of the "reactionary looting class." Next came reports in "creative history"; one of the most successful told how the Chinese Communist Party had united China and won the war against Japan. Anyone...