Word: scoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of Caen while the British outnumbered the enemy. He dismissed the Ingersoll version of the battle of the Ardennes, "which represents Montgomery as panicking and screaming ... as putting the British Army into full retreat, as nearly losing the battle by abandoning the offensive . . . and finally as trying to scoop all the credit for himself...
...learned his home town inside out. By the time he landed on the city desk, he was an authority on the city's clergymen and its bookies, its main streets and back alleys. As a young sports writer, he uncovered the 1919 Black Sox scandal, later got a scoop on the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note. Unlike the city editors of fiction, he is full of sweet 'reasonableness with his admiring staff of "Reutlinger's Rats...
Leland Stowe, Raymond Clapper and Vincent Sheean found more comfortable quarters in town, but they had to stop at the hostel to learn what was going on, and to clear and file their dispatches. There was no such thing as a scoop; all the news came out of press conferences and censorship was drum-tight...
Having pulled off the scoop of the week, roly-poly A.P. Correspondent Eddy Gilmore set out to measure its effect. He buttonholed Muscovites in the street, asked each one how he liked Stalin's answers to Gilmore's questions about war & peace...
LIFE'S scoop on Churchill's secret war speeches caused a sensation in London. It was a scandal, huffed a sizable section of the London press. Were the words of a Prime Minister his own, or the property of the state? Cried the London Star: "Such a document [the speech explaining Singapore's fall] is historic. It will long be counted part of the very fabric and structure of our greatness. . . . Once the ban on publication had been lifted, it should have been made a state paper...