Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he did not even screen the ads that began appearing on CBS last week. The second biggest outlay will be $4.5 million for the field staff, which already has selected its 50 state coordinators, including former partisans of men whom Carter left dazed in his wake: Scoop Jackson, Mo Udall, Hubert Humphrey...
...before he thought better of it and escaped. While the Mississippi delegation caucused in a CBS trailer, Mike Wallace was locked outside, but three young CBS pages inside-sons of Commentator Moyers, Correspondent Roger Mudd and Producer Perry Wolff-took in every word. They were deprived of a major scoop only because the delegation failed to reach an agreement...
...Washington Post and The Boston Globe tipped their hands about three weeks ago by running a story whose headline indicated that the race was over--Reagan was privately conceding defeat. Buried in the 1lt paragraph of the story was the essence of this "scoop;" Reagan had, according to an unidentified aide in his camp, referred to the campaign in the past tense--"I think we raised some important issues in this campaign...
...course, things haven't worked out that way. Humphrey, in his exuberance, sabotaged hit-man Scoop Jackson in Pennsylvania, which, as it turns out, was the last place rival Democrats could have stopped Carter. And the scenario that could have allowed for a Rockefeller candidacy--a series of Ford defeats by Reagan in the early primaries, knocking the incumbent out, thereby legitimizing Rockefeller's entry--never materialized...
...month ago, Philadelphia City Councilman Louis Johanson said that he would not vote for Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale...