Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 45 million Frenchmen got mildly shattering news from the tabloid Paris-Jour, which published a scoop that Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot will end her movie career within a year. "I've had enough of the life I'm leading," Paris-Jour had BB saying. "I'm 25 years old. In ten more years, adieu to youth. So I want to enjoy it a little and say adieu to the cinema and practice the profession I like best in the world." Breathless readers then learned that Brigitte's favorite profession is one of the world...
...went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases with chipper little figures going about their daily chores, drinking their beer, sparking, preparing their feasts-all under a bright sky of perpetual blue...
...campaign swing through upstate New York, Vice President Richard Nixon last week dropped into a press conference the kind of privileged news scoop that drives the Democrats wild. At the time of Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last fall, said Nixon, the FBI picked up two Soviet agents operating in Springfield, Mass.*-more proof, said he, that the U.S. has no reason to be ashamed of the U-2 flights over Russia. Nixon's headline brought Democratic outcries that he was playing politics with confidential information, but behind it, nonetheless, was still another untold story of ceaseless...
...Alive." Since it took to space on perfect propaganda schedule before the Paris summit conference, the Russian satellite provoked nervous curiosity in Washington that it might be more than it seemed. Washington State's well-informed Democratic Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made headlines by announcing: "There is growing reason to suspect that a man may be sitting in the Soviet 'spaceship', circling the globe at this very minute, and that the Soviets may very shortly attempt to return this man-alive-to earth." Major General John B. Medaris...
...that Kennedy men slipped to Soapy Williams has reached Iowa's Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless, and Minnesota's Orville Lothrop Freeman-and it fits them just as aptly. Farther West, Kennedy's braintrusters have spread news that they are also considering Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, California's Senator Clair Engle, and even Arizona's Congressman Stewart Udall. South of the Mason-Dixon line, their only live entry has been Florida's Governor Leroy Collins...