Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most ice cream connoisseurs ponder long and hard over what flavor to choose. For those who also stop to consider the caloric implications of their decision, Baskin-Robbins offers the following guide to the dietetic damage potential of twelve glop favorites. The calorie counts are for a single scoop, with a sugar cone; multiple dips, naturally, come to munch, munch more...
...back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror, they had found 21 bodies-mostly of middle-aged white itinerant farm workers, all of them apparently hacked to death with a heavy knife like a machete...
...from the Harvard Archives walked in last month to scoop up souvenirs and knickknacks-wall maps, posters, trophies and records-for an exhibit sometime in the distant future when "someone may come in and think, gee, Harvard once had a ROTC unit here...
...curious meeting of three Republicans who rarely agree with one another on much of anything. But Nixon's political purpose was not to mollify his fellow Republicans. Rather, by making the chopper tour, he deftly took the headlines away from a possible presidential rival, Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had scheduled a congressional hearing on the project for later in the week...
...Democratic worker, Rose insists she would have used the item regardless of Reagan's political affiliation. Her scoop has brought Rose several feelers for newspaper jobs when she graduates from Sacramento State next year, but it has also put her on the spot. Under...