Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unifier. Humphrey benefits, of course, from the weakness of the competition. The seven announced candidates -Udall, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, Milton Shapp, Terry Sanford and Fred Harris -have not aroused any enthusiasm in an electorate supposedly yearning for a new face. And with Ted Kennedy repeatedly rejecting all talk of a campaign, Humphrey is increasingly seen as a unifier who can keep the factious Democratic Party together. He still maintains loyal support among labor, blacks and farmers. Says a staffer on the national committee: "Any other candidate who depended on support from these groups would find Humphrey...
...Soil Scoop. On Mars, the laboratory will be served by a mechanical arm, which will reach out and scoop soil up from the surface. One small sample of soil will be dropped into a vessel containing natural Martian atmosphere. Then water vapor and carbon dioxide tagged with radioactive carbon 14 will be added. After five days of incubation under simulated Martian sunlight, the atmosphere will be removed, and the soil heated to 1160° F., hot enough to vaporize organic material. If any organism in the soil has incorporated the radioactive carbon dioxide by a process similar to terrestrial photosynthesis...
...suspects allegedly falsified records, fed incriminating evidence through a paper shredder and conducted a cover-up so pervasive that one investigator calls it "Ice Cream Gate." Indeed, if the 244-count indictment handed up by a Brooklyn grand jury last week can be proved in a trial, a giant scoop of American innocence will have melted away-for the accused is none other than Good Humor Corp., which advertises its ice cream as "the next best thing to love...
...superpowers on trade. Last January Moscow abrogated a trade-expansion treaty that would have lowered American tariffs on Soviet goods and made Soviet buyers of U.S. products eligible for long-term credits from the Export-Import Bank. Reason: Congress attached an amendment, promoted by Democratic Presidential Hopeful Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, that required the U.S.S.R. to allow freer emigration of minorities, especially Jews. At the time, the Soviets grumbled that they would get along without U.S. imports rather than allow such interference in their internal affairs. As recently as three months ago, Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev greeted a U.S. delegation...
Rattiner broke into creative journalism at age 20 after his father fired him from a summer job at the family drugstore in Long Island's easternmost village, Montauk. His offense: serving seven-scoop sundaes. He quickly raised $3,100 from local merchants and launched the Montauk Pioneer, his first free-distribution summer weekly. Today Rattiner owns a local printing firm, an advertising agency, a messenger and delivery service, as well as the eight weeklies-all of which he runs from his three-story gray-shingled "Dan's Papers Publishing Tower" on Main Street, Bridgehampton...