Word: scooped
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When war broke out in the Middle East, Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson proved once again that Israel has no firmer friend on Capitol Hill. He was the first in the Senate to call for massive U.S. military aid to Israel; he advocated a decisive Israeli victory; he offered the harshest criticism of the policy of détente. "In recent months," he said, "the flow of Soviet arms into Syria reached floodlike proportions, and yet Dr. Kissinger comes before the American people to say that Soviet behavior has been moderate and not irresponsible. I cannot agree. I believe that Soviet...
Jenkins' 1973 Chevrolet Vega does not look much different from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine...
Hall Patrol. In the crunch last week, the Armed Forces and their Senate allies, who were led by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, mounted a remarkable goal-line stand. Their toughest test was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment to cut the 471,000 U.S. land-based troops stationed abroad by 40% over the next three years. To nearly everyone's surprise, the Senate, in a technical vote on the language of the amendment, approved the measure by a vote of 49 to 46. It was five hours later before the actual vote on the amendment itself took...
Children who, like my friend Sally, can not feed themselves are spoonfed by attendants who are in a rush to get back to their wards. An attendant who has become proficient in the art of spoonfeeding can scoop a meal into the mouths of nine children in less than twelve minutes. The food given the residents can be described only as mush, and I have yet to meet a normal person who would agree to eat the food served to the residents of Willowbrook...
...founder of a new religion, Akhenaten needed a new capital for his god, and he found it at Tell el Amarna, a scoop in the hills along the Nile halfway between Memphis and Thebes. There, with an authority today's modern planners can only envy, Akhenaten laid out and had built a whole city. But when he died, the traditionalists took over and tore the whole place down. Thus there are few surviving works of monumental size, but the smaller objects, dug out of the rubble of Tell el Amarna and now on exhibition in Brooklyn, testify dramatically...