Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years I have never heard a newspaperman use the word 'scoop.'- One might say 'beat' to describe a four-minute advantage on a hot story, but scoop is a bad word. A worse word is 'game' to refer to our business, as in 'How do you like the newspaper game?' If this is a game it is a very strenuous sport, indeed, and I would not 'play' it for free...
...during the coming school year fills out a scholarship form listing his estimated expenses and resources for that year. In a typical case a student estimates that his expenses will be $1600, his resources from his family $1000. That leaves a difference--or as the Financial Aid men usually refer to it, a "gap"--of $600 which must be filled in if the student is to continue his education...
Cook County State's Attorney John S. Boyle suspected there was dirty work afoot, and he put his suspicions in a letter to the Chicago Tribune. "I have received many complaints from police officers," wrote he, "concerning the manner in which . . . Richard Tracy lives. They refer to his $100,000 home, 1951 Cadillac convertible . . . They are sort of hinting that a grand jury investigation might be a very helpful thing for the community...
Thus students in the Soviet zone can still come and get a free education. Liebenau said. In Eastern Germany, however, students still disappear, he stated, "and that is why some refer to the Soviet some as the 'biggest country on earth'; it begins at the river Elbe and a considerable number of its inhabitants live in Siberia...
...symptoms. He kept a Dictaphone in his car, and as he drove away he would dictate a letter to the first farmer, giving the second farmer's advice as Joe's own. Both farmers would be flattered by his attention. He would get a little careless and refer to "my 89-year-old opponent"-though the rival candidate, who had served for 24 years, was only 73. Joe won handily...