Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent piece on the pros and cons of atomic-test suspension. "But," he says I often now deliberately play down new angles because I am not trying for beats but for understanding. I don't want to have the reputation of a 'scoop' artist That is tiresome for a man who wants to be a solid reporter...
...world security. Employing his theory that "you should always look around for the guys who are unhappy," Reston found them among the Chinese. Their unhappiness was translated, by Reston persuasion, into a stunning gift: the entire position papers of the Allied powers attending the conference. This was a smashing scoop, and any other reporter probably would have hurled the caboodle onto Page One. Instead, the canny Scot husbanded his riches, doling them out bit by bit, day by day, as the negotiations reached some point covered in his private file. The Department of State, in a mystified frenzy, falsely accused...