Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties for serving over-ample portions of bread - "the holy of holies" as a newspaper called it - which they scoop up when the meal is over and sell to private animal-raisers...
...another voice that could yet stir up a hornet's nest was that of Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, a New Frontiersman and an influential member of the Armed Services Committee. Although he will probably vote to ratify the treaty, Jackson remained worried about the possibility of a Soviet doublecross...
...Tokyo. Its mission roots first established by U.S. Episcopalians in 1859, the church has had only a tiny impact on the country-in large measure because Japanese cannot comprehend such Western theological notions as sin. "A sea of good material," mourns one priest, "and yet we can scoop up so little...
Though the world of fashion could scarcely exist without its sense of discovery, if truth be told, there is less to a scoop than meets the eye. The giddy excitement of the St. Laurent show in Paris is partly real, partly a tempest in a B cup. Manhattan store windows and women's magazines were already chock-full of the new trends. Long before summer, Vogue Editor Diane Vreeland and best-dressed Viscountess Jacqueline de Ribes of fashion's Hall of Fame were wearing above-the-knee textured hose to all the best places-which automatically decrees...
TIME asked for, and was given, our cooperation in preparing its piece but unfortunately and inadvertently all reference to Women's Wear Daily's scoop was dropped. JAMES W. BRADY European Director Fairchild Publications of New York Paris...