Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweet Atmosphere. Looking ahead to the visit, both Moscow and Washington took steps to sweeten the atmosphere. In his Annapolis speech, Nixon made it plain that he did not think it proper, as voted by the House and advocated by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, for the U.S. to insist that the Soviet Union liberalize its emigration policies before granting Moscow trade concessions. The Soviets have denied many Jews permission to leave the country...
...past three or four years. He no longer has the same combative energy, and he has often failed to do his homework. On key issues ranging from arms limitation to trading with the Russians, Fulbright has been defeated on the floor by hard-liners led by Senator Henry M. ("Scoop")Jackson...
...oldest of the Nieman Fellows at 39, Matthews said his biggest scoop was the first major ITT story in August 1971. The article linked an antitrust settlement in favor of the ITT with conferences ITT executives had with Nixon administration officials...
...same strenuous hours. The fruit of all that effort-a dollop of show business shoptalk and a few bon mots from the stars, wrapped around a demi-cheesecake photo of some starlet-may not always seem worth it. But occasionally he comes up with a genuine hard-news scoop, like his 1953 disclosure that Dr. Jonas Salk was working on a polio vaccine. Wilson heard it from Helen Hayes, whose daughter was a polio victim...
...evening began with Missouri Congressman James Symington quipping, "We have been brought together by the big enchilada of the Democratic Party." Some 750 Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and "Scoop" Jackson, paid $125 for dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician...