Word: paragraphing
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...President's eyes looked weary and his voice was muffled by a head cold. But his spirits seemed as buoyant as the spring sun on the White House lawn. He read the first paragraph of his statement firmly: "The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world based upon freedom, equality and justice; a world in which all persons, regardless of race, color or creed, may live in peace, honor and dignity...
...papers, circ. 2,000,000) "occupies a world of deep, depressing blacks and dazzling whites. Untroubled by any of the shadings in between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much...
Newsmen thumbed through a new official pamphlet, stopped short at one pregnant paragraph, read it again. No, their eyes had not deceived them. The U.S. Army (in Guide to the Use of Information Materials) had given its own startling view of what the U.S. public should know...
Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increased reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...
...Some anonymous buildings, suggesting another paragraph by Poet MacNeice: "And it is heartbreaking, too, to walk through parts of the East End which may not lately have been bombed but which were more or less evacuated under an earl ier terror and left to the rats and the damp -the petrification of the memory of poverty. Street after street of empty stinking homes which will never-or so we hope-be anybody's homes any more...