Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost so badly, a number of Democrats were engaged in some curious carryings-on. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was up in Chicago huddled with Mayor Richard Daley. Jean Westwood, McGovernite head of the Democratic National Committee, was down in Alabama chatting with George Wallace. George Meany and Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson were corralling votes, not for Nov. 7, but for Dec. 9 -the date of the next national committee meeting. Many Democrats were much less concerned with the election -which they took to be a foregone, forlorn conclusion-than with maneuvering to come out ahead in the murky, vengeful postelection...
...while they were hot, and from the tough questions he threw at them once they were on the air. An incident this summer suggests that Spivak has not lost his scheduling touch. During the Thomas Eagleton imbroglio, CBS's Face the Nation seemed to have scored a clear scoop by presenting the beleaguered vice-presidential candidate and Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that "it would be a noble thing" for Eagleton to resign from the Democratic...
MOST EMBARASSING MOMENT: "It would have to be this year's game against Princeton. The night before we were at training table at the Hanover Inn, everyone was having vanilla ice cream sundies, you know the kind they scoop not the bricks you get in the dining hall but as a joke they brought me a dish full of white napkins. Everyone laughed but I'm pretty far-sighted and I didn't notice what was wrong. Yea I started laughing too. I don't know why. I suppose cause everyone else was. I dug into the dessert--I thought...
Embargoes. To rationalize the Senate's act, the author of the amendment, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, quoted Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "There are no internal affairs left on our crowded earth." In reply, Gaylord Nelson, who voted against the amendment, mused: "I do not understand why the policy, if we are going to apply it, should not apply, for example, to Uganda, which is arbitrarily driving out of the country some 60,000 natives who were born and raised there, not only charging a fee but confiscating all their property. Or why it should not apply to all dictatorial countries where emigration...
Even the convention "scoop" by David Schoumacher of CBS had a spurious taint about it. During the evening he stood at a closed door inside the hall. The President's big policymakers were in there, he announced, "hammering out the final details on the rules fight." Out of mike shot, he said he thought the story "passed for news under non-news conditions. I wanted to open the door on camera, but I didn't have the nerve. What if I found five janitors playing cards in there...