Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front door, consisting of a letter followed by a number. Final selection has been accomplished by a sort of raffle. Unless a house had been looted, the refugees found it was fully furnished down to linen, clothing and dishes. The fleeing Greek families had stopped only long enough to scoop up money, jewelry and blankets...
...Angeles businessman approaches two of Jackson's aides and says: "I know he's a great man, and I'm going to support him no matter what. But that speech! I want to make a deal. I want to buy you a video-tape machine for Scoop to use when he's speaking. He can look at himself and see what he looks like to others." The offer is accepted...
...friends. But Jackson's family still lives relatively modestly, its only income being Jackson's $42,500 annual salary and a small return-$3,238 last year -from stocks owned by his wife and their two children, Anna Marie, 12, and Peter, 8. Since 1952, Scoop has donated all of the money he earns from speeches and articles-totaling $34,350 last year-to scholarship funds in the state of Washington...
...still notably opaque for a man in public life. The private personality behind the long face, doleful eyes and resonant voice is known only to his family and a few close friends, though one crony insists: "There is no such thing as an off-the-record Scoop. What you see is what he is. He's that way at home, he's that way with his friends." Almost completely dominated by politics, Jackson has shown himself to be aggressively ambitious, rigidly self-disciplined and often unwilling to tolerate criticism or forgive a slight. He has been known...
Delivery Boy. As a boy, Jackson was a poor athlete, an avid Boy Scout and a skillful debater. At 13, he won a prize from the Everett Herald for diligence as a newspaper delivery boy. Its comic page chronicled the adventures of a newspaper reporter named Scoop, who was the inspiration for Jackson's nickname. His newspaper route included Everett's red-light district, where Jackson was appalled to find prominent men patronizing whorehouses, gambling dens and speakeasies. Indeed, in his commencement speech at his high school graduation in 1930, Jackson primly lectured his audience about the evils...