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Melvin Maddocks
American
Author
Baseball
Defensive
Giving
Idealistic
Journalist
Nothing
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Zig Ziglar
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks
Giving
Jazz
Honorary
Approval
Like
Boy
Boy Scout
Making
Scout
Little
Congressional
Seal
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
Melvin Maddocks
Would
Rather
Uncertainties
Wrong
Almost
Journalists
Like
Ambiguous
Than
Report
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
Melvin Maddocks
Art
World
Back
Distractions
Least
Turn
Certain
Means
Choose
Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
Melvin Maddocks
Journalist
Nothing
Defensive
More
Idealistic
Than
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Melvin Maddocks
Sports
Too
Pedigree
Both
Environment
Observing
Indoors
Lights
Like
Dogs
Controlled
Show
Baseball
Species
Watching
Suit
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
Melvin Maddocks
Truth
Together
Thought
Enough
Gave
Once
Alike
Would
Something
Could
Facts
Put
Journalists
Come
Readers
Least
Stir
Up
Them
Standards
Cooks
Fast
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