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@Antje19777
An old time mechanical translator and interpreter. You talk in the top in Swedish, say. Or Chinese. Where it says"8," and then you turn the crank and the words come out of the opening on the left. In English. Provided you clamp it FIRMLY to your desk.
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As we seldom tire of telling people, we were there, and still remember threading our way through the huge crowed and hearing John Lewis speak. It was before we joined the Post, and we were on a very,very long lunch break on a very very hot day.
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@AvantinkUg
@gunsnrosesgirl3
That's fine. But it discourages the development of true powers. Such as mass hypnotism and levitation.
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We're 10 days from a big newspaper anniversary. Not the date of the Watergate breakin, but the date( june 18, 1972) of Post's FIRST STORY on it. Here's last two paragraphs, including names of those who helped on it. Note name of current Twitter user, 2 lines from very bottom.
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From watching tv we got the idea that all reporters and other media people were required to show up with books in the background. Well, like the others, we too have here we are with some of ‘em.
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So what'd ya think about 2016. Umm, well, it was WARM, real WARM! (that's not duckin the Q. It's a fact.It was WARM)
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Been a tumultuous,turbulent,troubulous year.But I was here for 1968.Remember it.Wrote about it! 2016, you've been a lot but you're no 1968.
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A regrettably impersonal but still sincere holiday greeting, for Dec. 25, and for all December festivals and to everyone who celebrates one or all or none. And to those who read the Post and those who wont, and those who follow this feed, and even those who DONT
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@DeldanaL
My comment just to show I read to the end: after a certain age you may remember your feet but find them a bit hard to reach. (As people age their arms get shorter. Not sure if this has been adequately studied.)
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to l followers and colleagues, as well as the dubious and the disgruntled, and those uncertain whether they fit any of those categories, or perhaps several, in the spirit of general merriment and of improving the sketching abilities of the populace a Merry Christmas is wished.
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Jack Kerouac is trending on twitter. It's his birthday. He would have been 99. He died in 1969, and for unexplained reasons the obit did not appear on the front page. But if they tell you to write it, you have to do it, anyway.
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More on why gyro, the sandwich, is YEER-ro.Yes, the first letter IS the Greek letter gamma. BUT gamma is NOT always pronounced like the hard “g” in go! It can be a VOICED PALATAL FRICATIVE! depending on the letter that follows. No further on fricatives for NOW. Maybe later.
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Here's a journalism souvenir of the moon landing 50 years ago. It's a couple paragraphs from the Washington Post that appeared the day after.The landing was July 20, 1969, and this, is from the July 21 paper. Imagine people looking at page one and saying: Whatttt??? hahaha.
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I'm resending the John Lennon story from 40 years ago, on the grounds of easier reading. An inference that newspaper readers may make is that deadlines were later in 1980. We printed more papers, and the presses kept running longer. So we made A1 altho it happened around 11 p.m
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An
#indictment
, yes. But on the coolest day in more than a month in Washington, a pleasant day with a
#supermoon
after the stormy turbulence of Friday and Saturday. Could we neglect that? No. Did we write it? YES! Can you read it? Maybe. (if u subscribe)
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@samlbla
I hope you shook your head and said despite all the rumors and the gossip, it is not me. Will you be disappointed if I tell you that I am not Lorna but all evidence indicates that it is she?
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In this photo we are either defending freedom of the press, responding to criticism of our stories, or applying for a role as a left-handed pinch hitter on one of the MLB teams that’s struggling. (There’s a ballpark in walking distance.) Hahaha.
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Read this obit by colleague
@emilylangerwp
. Barry Sussman, the editor who seemed from the first to know where Watergate was going. When we came into the newsroom that day 50 years ago and innocently asked if anything was up, he already suspected.
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@GinieSigonney
I'm not sure pandas should be permitted in the exit row. Even if it gives more legroom. It's not clear how they'd react in an emergency.
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To all who follow, don't, might, or once did, to believers, unbelievers, disbelievers,scoffers,skeptics and deists and theists,to those who read our stories, who liked them or found them infuriating or missed them but will in time spot one, Merry Christmas and Good Shabbos.
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The idea of journalism is to take the story seriously, but not to indicate excessive concern with the trappings and layout of the at-home workspace. Anyway, this does show the mandatory bookshelf, with its required copy of War and Peace.
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@AnnaBower
Without making any comment on the facts or merits of the case or casting any aspersions, can we make this comment. May we ask whether many names seem more generically representative of Wisconsin than Chesebro????
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It's the eve of the first snowstorm in the Washington area in months We recognize it with these lines: Tomorrow they say it's going to snow/Many the places we shall not go/ It matters less than once it did/ The staff works from home since Covid.
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One week to Eclipse. BE SUPER SAFE. no matter HOW GOOD your glasses, use only ONE eye! save other one for later eclipses, other purposes.
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this is the place for really, really profound tweets. nothing else!!!!!
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@emilykmay
Married women go out in the dark and cold to wait for the bus that takes the kids to school and single men forget to brush their teeth.
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Here's a story from 52 years ago, in which we followed Lyndon Johnson on the day before his term ended and Nixon was inaugurated. It occurred at a time of great division. Lots of tear gas was used on protesters on that afternoon.Troops lined Nixon's parade route that next day.
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@JennJen100
This is not my own view on this matter. I would not opine on anything connected to current politics. But as an observation on life in general, I might take note of what can be done when intent and incompetence work together.
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when the first watergate story runs under your byline, that is the sort of thing that will appear in your obit, As this demonstrates.
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@johnkonrad
Have people forgotten Archimedes' principle? No. Not THAT one, although it has relevance. The OTHER one. Give me a lever big enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world.
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Here's a New Year's Eve story not from 50 years ago, but from 49. Happy New Year!
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This is terrible news. Anne was a terrific person, whose many attributes included unflappable patience and great good humor while under great stress each night,including her years heading Metro’s copy desk.Condolences to her family and all her colleagues.
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People unfamiliar with Washington may not know this. There’s several ways to get to Walter Reed. Winning electoral college majority gets helicopter trip. But others can ride Metro’s Red Line. About 30-40 mins. from downtown. Stop right outside. Be careful crossing Rockville Pike.
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In Sunday's OUTLOOK section of the Post, there was a story about Jack Kerouac and his book, and it mentioned that he had died 50 years ago. So here is the first paragraph from the Post obit.
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Going back to Standard Time is like punching a pillow. More light in the A.M. means less in the P.M. An advanced society would offer two periods of light, one at each end. Let THEM work it out. With AI or computers.
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Sad about Whitey Ford passing. Just 70 years and 2 days ago we sat in bleachers in old Yankee Stadium and saw him win game 4 of World Series against Phils as a rookie.A LONG subway ride to be among 60,000+ on a bright Saturday afternoon. Many stars played, incl famed J. DiMaggio.
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It's the 39th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. We wrote about it the night it happened.
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@HoutrowMDPhDMPH
@AlissaMitche11
You could say, I'm not a nurse. But I work with a lot of nurses in my day job. So I'm sure I can help until a doctor shows up!
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If you had lost your top security clearance and were sent to Mexico to improve relations, how would you establish rapport? Maybe tell Mexico Prez. : “Look Enrique. We can speak frankly.” Pause. Frown. Questioning look. “Yes, we can. I HAVE NO SECRETS.”
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One of our stories about Labor Day, AND a photo suggestive of work. Happy Labor Day!
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On Monday story was Pulitzer Prize celebration in WaPost newsroom; Twitter user can be seen in gray shirt in photo; later
#biochemistry
made possible metabolization of champagne, work went on!
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A wow story by Post colleague
@joelachenbach
on 1st photo from NASA super telescope. It captured light that TRAVELED FOR 13 BILLION YEARS. Without asking "are we there yet?" And some of us think WE have a long commute! (Great doings speak to each of us.)
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A common question is where were you when you heard. We were in the Post newsroom. It was 40 years ago afnd before computers. We called people on the phone. Or they called us. Apologies for poor reproduction.
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@oldenoughtosay
And of course they appointed them for lots of states in the days before 1776. How soon they forget!
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Television history. Are any people watching the Democratic National Convention tonight who also watched the one in 1948? Yes, there are. How Many? At least one! Hahaha! What’s different? Screen is bigger, but the cast is smaller. It was b&w, and the set had lots of glowing tubes.
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The cool light of a full moon; foliage near its autumn peak; warmth just a degree below the record. When? Today, Sat.Oct. 28. Where? Here in D.C. And in the Post. Online and on C2 in Sun.edition. In a year of days of every sort, not many like Saturday.
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@megkmag
Not to make light of this, because there have apparently been injuries. But doesn’t that photo carry its own, slightly cynical caption? With the “I (love) NY” logo on the bus!?
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It's not every Christmas Eve that the opportunity arises to write about the occasion. A Merry Christmas to all.
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@timecaptales
@fasc1nate
Amazing that someone named Houdini really turned out to be a houdini!!!
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A pause on Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccinations after possible side effects reported. Odds of having clots seem about 1 in a million. But this is a high self-esteem country. Many of us know we ARE one in a million.
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Marvin Gaye, died 38 years ago today. Our obit/news story appeared on the Post front page the next day.
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Friday, which ended only a few minutes ago, was the 128th birthday of J.R.R.
#Tolkien
. (Lord of the Rings) . When he died in 1973, we wrote his obit. Here's the first four paragraphs.
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@littmath
@celestelabedz
Did you ask if he was wearing a safety belt? To keep from falling off the edge?
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It's 1:40 a.m. in the Eastern U.S. So even for those who don't believe in Daylight Time, it is the 17th of March. So...let us wish you all a...
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As in every occupation, even one so seemingly freewheeling as journalism, rules exist. Such as, give the facts and sometimes write about pandas. Who are we to flout the rules?
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We’re getting ready for the opening of MLB playoffs on tv tonight. Reminds me that we sat in the bleachers at Candlestick in 1962 for one of the NL playoff games after Dodgers, Giants finished season in a tie.
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John Lennon was shot 41 years ago tonight in NYC. We learned of it in the Post newsroom, and our story ,largely gathered by telephone, ran on the front page of the late editions. Here's the first two paragraphs.
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Planned 18 minute delay betw.
#orange
line
#metro
trains 2day almost matches famed 18 1/2 min.gap in
#watergate
tapes. Coincidence?
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Election nite in newsroom. Food provided at other end. Not that hungry, but it is SO FAR AWAY, maybe if start out now, will work up an appetite before I get there.
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Caitlyn Clark broke an NCAA basketball scoring record today and congrats and kudos to her. But how many noticed that it was done in a game between the (only?) two college teams with EYES in their nickname? Iowa Hawkeyes and Ohio State Buckeyes. The ophthalmology classic?
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@weiss_hadas
Yes! Not a gap.Merely a sign of rebellion against the constraints and conformity imposed by a system to which consent may not have been sought or given! Hahaha!
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Keepers of pet salamanders swab skins for Smithsonian study. Story tells why (So, Science advances, in small steps)
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Training for TV news, based on watching tonight: Stand in front of electric fan. Have someone throw slush in front of fan. Turn fan to Hi. Keep smiling! It's cold, wet, and dark, yet all the reporters look so HAPPY!( Print reporters allowed to scowl!)
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Solstice today! Days WILL get longer! True news & Good news for fans of daylight.But, in fair & balanced tradition of our nation & Media,may be Bad news for
#vampires
& other night creatures. Also, even if not immediate, colder days likely loom.(Tweet length to stay same)
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Seems sort of clear this
#saturdaynight
that we are in some sort of war with
#coronavirus
and
#COVID
ー19 ; at the same time a cold rain is falling here in Washington, recalling line from Hamlet "when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions" (guy could write!)
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@Jimfrombaseball
A lot of people didn't realize that if you wanted to see Musial play you didn't need to go to St. Louis. You could catch the subway to the Polo Grounds. First against the Giants but later against the Mets. As in the photo.
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Every day, we can see examples of the amazing diversity of our species. For example, at today’s
#ImpeachmentHearing
,ranking member Collins called the room coldest he’d been in, while Jim Jordan still in shirtsleeves. Showing the range of thermal regulation within a single party!
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So ends one of the most marvelous days of our year; the one that lasts only 23 (!) hours. It’s the one in which we, as was done in the book of Joshua, command: “sun, stand thou still,” while the clock keeps going so the day now seems miraculously longer. At the cost of some sleep
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Undeniably lots of grim news, but nevertheless wished to send Labor Day greetings. It's after sunset here in Washington, D.C. so under some dispensations, the holiday may have already started. hahaha! and...Happy Labor Day.
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Lots of interest in Georgia. Well, it does have Atlanta. And even in the days of railroads, before they built the airport, the saying was that you couldnt get to heaven (or that other place) without changing in Atlanta!
#Election2020
#Loeffler
#Perdue
#Ossoff
#Warnock
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How long would you last as color commentator on NBA basketball broadcast if the shot went in from beyond the 3-point line and the announcer said “nothing but net,” and you added “NEUTRALITY!” Huh?!
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@TerryMondry
Well maybe she wasn't really a nurse. Maybe he wasn't really dehydrated. Maybe he is hallucinating. Maybe readers weren't supposed to notice. Hard to tell.
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Also, people may wonder whether the very last name at the end of the story is THAT Tim O'Brien. And of course the answer is yes, it is.
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Great
@juliezauzmer
story. Suspenseful as fiction is suspenseful, but in the best journalism tradition, tells a true story, while asking important question: How much does our cherished melting-pot tradition depend on individuals and circumstances.
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@RealisticPoetry
Same as to an old one. Stay up late. Get up early. Do everything that’s to be done, and see everything that’s to be seen. Think thoughts, dream dreams, read everything. Listen to everybody. And keep writing all the time. But also, take naps!
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This was snapped during filming in Washington of a new Wonder Woman movie. No idea what contribution the cow makes to the story. But obviously, it does.
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Lots of grim news today, so maybe you’d like our story on award going to heroic dog that protected White House.
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@katimcf
Actually as soon as I get my soda I am going to hold up a bank. But now that you know my secret...
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Sight to see on tv:Don Newcombe at 91 throwing out World Series first pitch in LA.Saw him in game 4 of 1949 series in Bklyn's Ebbets Field
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To all followers, and to any others, on a non partisan basis, and to practice drawing capability in the event that video goes down:
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Now it's close to midnight. But it's not midnight yet. So for anyone who may have missed it.
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@JamesVGrimaldi
@washingtonpost
Hours after we learned about the breakin, one of my assignments was to call various GOP figures and ask what they knew. Some were indignant at the implication they would have any knowledge of such a thing. (And so far as is known, they didn’t. But it was thought proper to ask.)
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@Bink97
@AvantinkUg
@gunsnrosesgirl3
We respect mechanical ingenuity. But the world might benefit even more from cultivation of our inner resources. (This tweet is accompanied by interpretive material. This can be expressed as...it was intended as a joke. But the again who really knows????!!!)
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@SheriHerman10
I suppose 800 seems like a lot. But it makes you wonder about the person who really wanted to go and was told he just missed the cut.mHe was 801 on the list. Maybe the told him to sit tight and keep in touch and if anybody tests positive for
#COVID19
or something, they’ll call!
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@roguecaliber
In fact, they have proved extremely effective. They say there has NEVER been a satisfactorily documented account of a witch climbing them.
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So much being written lately on cicadas, we thought we'd show how we covered them in 1970. Yes, we called them locusts in first paragraph, but cicada shows up in 5th line of second column!
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It has rained in Washington EVERY DAY this year. It’s the kind of thing you can write on New Year’s Day, provided it rains. If tomorrow is dry will we say it has rained half the days of the year? Anyway statistics folks might worry about sample size
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If Yankees win 2nite might tweet about seein them vs Dodgers in a previous World Series: (in Brooklyn Oct. 8, 1949 game 4 at Ebbets field.)
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