Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just in case not enough credit might be forthcoming from others, the Times itself is reminding everyone that congratulations are due. In the first 18 days after Correspondent Seymour Hersh broke the story, the paper ran 32 CIA-related articles and managed to mention its own scoop 38 times...
Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson. He is not only the Senate's leading spokesman on pressing domestic problems, but was also the major force in pushing the Russian emigration amendment through the Congress...
Presidential hopefuls Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) took a different tack working on the theory that the way to a man's vote is through his stomach. Wherever Gov. Carter went he left little paper cups fulled with Georgia peanuts and a glossy magazine filled with pictures of himself. Jackson had a trailer in the basement of the convention hall where delegates could pick up apples "picked in Washington...
Among the Democrats, Alabama Governor George Wallace has declined in acceptability to 38% from 42% in May; in both surveys, slightly more than half found him unacceptable. But the potential candidacy of Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson seems to have flourished, though his major handicap still is the fact that about half of the people surveyed do not know enough about him to have an opinion. Still, his rating since May has climbed from 25% to 30%, while the proportion of those who find him unacceptable has declined slightly, from...
...even the manifesto caused some Tory red faces. Prepared after long intramural wrangling, it was scheduled for publication late last week after Heath returned from a trip to the U.S. While Heath was still abroad, copies of the manifesto were mysteriously slipped to three London dailies, which proceeded to scoop the Conservative Party with its own platform. Entitled "Putting Britain First," the manifesto puts the fight against inflation above everything else, warning bluntly that "because of the economic crisis, there is no room for early improvement in living standards." The political thrust of the document was clearly aimed as much...