Word: paragraphing
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...gave expensive going-away parties for the sons of prominent families, served the best of champagne. When an Oxnard boy was killed in action, Lucy would visit the bereaved family and bawl like a cow with a thistle in its throat. When President Roosevelt died, Oxnard newspapers carried a paragraph of solemn comment from Lucy as well as from churchmen and other civic leaders...
...made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...
...later issue, I shall expand upon the above paragraph and the rather carelessly worded arguments of the previous article...
...That paragraph changed everything. It meant that the President of the U.S. had taken the whole atomic-bomb discussion out of the unreal context of "Shall we share the secret of the bomb with the Russians, or shall we keep it?" The secret about the secret was that there was no lasting secret...
...Sneeze, One Paragraph. The correspondents have something more to gripe about than the White House colorlessness. They are exceedingly jealous of any signs of presidential favoritism-and there have been some. On the President's trip to Independence, fortnight ago, Harry Truman invited A.P.'s Tony Vaccaro and U.P.'s Merriman Smith to join in a poker game. The I.N.S. reporter (a substitute) was left out, presumably because the President did not know him very well. Also left out were specials like the New York Herald Tribune's Washington chief, Bert Andrews, the Chicago...