Word: akimbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scoops. CBS thought it made history by its coverage of the Kennedy auto cavalcade, with shots of young Jack's fingers tapping on the dash board. NBC proudly claimed that it got the best shots of Kennedy leaving his hideaway cottage after being nominated (ABC was there, lenses akimbo, but its cameramen somehow followed a phony tip and were crouched in waiting by the back door, which never opened). Actually, little newsbeats here and there were not what mattered. More than the others, it was NBC that held the steadiest eye on the center of the story...
Turning up for work after their usual Monday-Tuesday weekend, editors, writers and researchers pushed through the revolving doors with eyes akimbo, walked across serpentine tile inlays in the lobby floor. "It looks like the walk at the edge of the beach in Rio," said Senior Editor James Keogh...