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Reston

[res-tuhn]

noun

  1. James (Barrett) Scotty, 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.



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He stopped using models with low body mass indexes when one - Ana Carolina Reston - died of anorexia.

From BBC

He was also the first designer to ban underweight models from the runway, after the death of model Ana Carolina Reston in 2006 from anorexia nervosa.

From BBC

It was written by leading Washington correspondent James Reston, whom the Times itself in his obituary decades later admitted “was forgiving of the frailties of soldiers, statesmen, and party hacks—too forgiving, some of his critics later said, because he was too close to them.”

From Slate

In language that is all too revealing of Reston’s own journalistic biases, the article reports that “the Negro leaders in the New York meeting gave Attorney General Kennedy and Burke Marshall, one of his aides, a hard time. The meeting started with a savage comment by one of the Negroes against ‘The Kennedys,’ ” before going on to defend the ways in which, “as a matter of fact, the Attorney General and Burke Marshall had been deeply involved behind the scenes in trying to settle the Birmingham crisis.”

From Slate

The Reston and Bombali strains primarily affect non-human primates.

From BBC

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