Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban centers like Miami, has favored liberal candidates, while the less populous northern half has long been a stronghold of conservatism. During the 1968 presidential campaign, Wallace carried the three northernmost congressional districts in the state; overall, he ran barely 50,000 votes behind Hubert Humphrey. Notes Senator Scoop Jackson: "Northern Florida is Southern and southern Florida is Northern...
Apparently those around the Square like him, too. They seem to be constantly jamming his store and buying one and two, and--those who can balance them--three scoop ice cream cones...
...property without the property owner's permission. Offenders would be subject to fines of up to $500, six months in jail, or both. Shaker Heights now has the problem of enforcement; no arrests have yet been made, but some dog-owners are now following their pets around with scoop and broom...
...came to Pakistan prepared to see the kind of tank battles I had witnessed during the war over Kashmir in 1965," Correspondent Kraar cabled from Rawalpindi, "but I found this town completely quiet. It made me feel like that correspondent in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, who cabled his home office, ADEN UN-WARWISE, while a competitor reported, ADEN WARWISE. The main event that evening was a dinner that President Yahya Khan was giving for the Chinese Communist First Minister of Machine Building...
...moment the Democratic campaign is only in the casting process, with candidates moving on and off the stage. Last week, in a triumph of fantasy over realism, Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty announced his candidacy, hoping for the party's rightward constituency. More persuasively, Washington's Scoop Jackson also entered. "The No. 1 priority in this country," said Jackson, "must be to put people back to work." Then he drew the distance between himself and the party's left: "Most Americans are fed up with people who are fed up with America . . . This society is not a guilty, imperialist, oppressive...