Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were white knuckles and strained expressions among the 80 passengers as the Concordski whistled down the runway for 33 seconds, sucking in air through four "sugar scoop" intakes slung beneath its body. Doubtless, many passengers remembered apprehensively that in its first major public appearance at the Paris air show four years ago, the Concordski went out of control, killing 13 people in a fiery crash that was seen by millions of TV viewers. After the tragedy, modifications were made in the aircraft...
...death, his reputation has been skillfully embalmed by the Joyboys of journalism and lit-crit. More precisely, there are two reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...
...Senators on the floor and in his office. On Thursday morning he sensed that the moment was ripe for a compromise. "Last night did some good," he said. "Psychologically, it made us all realize we had to find a solution." The one he found was a proposal by Henry ("Scoop") Jackson to raise the price ceiling to $2.03-higher than the Carter plan but lower than what decontrol advocates figured the free-market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused...
Whatever shape SALT II eventually takes, it will be carefully scrutinized by the Pentagon and national security affairs experts in Congress. Some, like Democratic Senator Scoop Jackson of Washington, fear that U.S. negotiators might be tempted to give away too much to the Soviets. Jackson, in fact, argues that the Senate should ratify even the "policy declaration" by which the Administration promises to respect SALT ceilings. (The Arms Control and Disarmament Act makes any arms limitation agreement subject to congressional approval.) To make his point, Jackson, who heads the arms-control subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, plans...
...with time winding down, Stone picked up where York had left off, firing two scores, one on a magnificent scoop shot off a Howard crossing pass. Back Sue McCune also added a score with an unassisted shot that beat goalie Randyl to the left side...