Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grail which motivates this glowing silkworm's Quest from coast to coast appears to be some mystic sense of Nowness, which, once possessed, will be the journalistic scoop of an epoch. Mainland commitment is no good, because "the moment you become a partisan of any cause you commit yourself to ideas fifty years old, because that's how long it takes an idea to become a cause.... George Orwell said everything that needs to be said about the current international scene in 1948." Well, statements like this don't quite read as cleverly as they speak, and neither does...
...others. By lining up a screen test for a stage-struck court official at the Finch-Tregoff murder trial in California in 1960, she got inside information on the jury's deliberations. Her chumminess with the judge at Sam Sheppard's trial earned her more than one scoop-besides bringing sharp criticism for the judge by a U.S. District Court when it heard Dr. Sam's appeal. Dorothy had the good journeyman's talent for catching accurate detail, as well as a sharp eye for the offbeat feature story on, say, an obscure trial witness. Whenever...
...occasional, routine items about the voyage; when an editor asked if the Press could run some of Mrs. Manry's letters from her husband, the Plain Dealer told her to refuse. In preparation for Manry's arrival, the Plain Dealer decided to make the most of its scoop. It sent three staffers, plus Manry's wife and two children, to England to greet him. Last week one of the reporters hired a plane to fly over Tinkerbelle, and his story was headlined: "Hello Bob! See you soon." The Plain Dealer saw Bob sooner than it expected...
...write that Johnson is "so possessed by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him." Is this the much lauded Great Society? What will be left of individual responsibility and initiative? What is left for man to work for if the Federal Government provides shelter, education, health services and retirement benefits...
When it comes to Great Society legislation Johnson is insatiable. So possessed is he by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him. In his domestic program, the present is already the past, and Johnson is looking forward to greater achievements in the future. No fewer than a dozen presidential task forces are laboring to come up with creative ideas and constructive approaches to such American problems as transportation, water pollution, education and urban affairs. No matter...