Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Partly through awe, partly through fear, partly because Gordon will not take no for an answer, a long and covert chain of news sources in and around Detroit's city government provide him with muck to rake. Working newsmen abhor him, as much for his beats and his seemingly unlimited sources within the bowels of the city as for his cocky personality and flamboyant journalism...
...Traveler was never much of a paper. It's crusades and muck-racking expeditions were never very exciting, revealing, or pertinent. It was always sensational, with huge blown-up headlines ("Jayne Mansfield Dies In Crash") running across the top of the front page. And the stories that it ran were chosen, not because they provided balanced news coverage, but because they were the kind of stories that sold newspapers...
...help of a former assistant district attorney, he browsed freely through confidential files in the D.A.'s office to get leads for his searing exposes of rackets and corruption. By the 1950s, his byline appeared regularly; by last month, there was no dispute that he had raked more muck, produced more exclusive stories and uncovered more crookedness than any other reporter in the 196-year history of the Inquirer. Also, last month the Inquirer fired...
Trail of Checks. In 1962, Philadelphia's city controller stopped payments to the Broadway Maintenance Co., which serviced the city's lights and parking meters, charging negligence, destruction of records, padding of bills and payoffs to city officials. Reporter Karafin raked no muck this time. Instead, he came to Broadway's defense, accusing the controller of making wild charges, praising the company for its "good maintenance program." Eventually a judge ordered the controller to stop blocking payments to Broadway, and the firm received a new $800,000-a-year contract from the city. All the time Harry...
Chip Otness set up Harvard's counter two minutes later when he turned on his speed to carry the puck around defenseman Don Turcotte, a not inconsiderable feat Otness repeated several times. Otness's try after circling the cage was blocked, but from there Dwight Ware muck the puck behind goalie Gary Thornon...