Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a double scoop of...ma'am?" But it appeared that the waitress wasn't listening to Ernest Hollings. "Uh, miss--young lady...
...Gary, Gary, Gary," preached one of the candidates. Then all of them started to snicker under their breaths. No one would give the Senator from Colorado the 95 cents for a single scoop of ice cream...
Most of Congress had something to say about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, but in the state of Washington, Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson's reactions had a double resonance: his constituents at the Boeing Co. built the 747 airliner, and during his 42 years on Capitol Hill, he had been more profoundly and articulately wary of the Soviet Union than any other national Democrat. Last week Jackson was recovering at home from a chest cold picked up during a trip to China, but on Thursday morning, he shrugged it off and drove into Seattle to talk...
...death surprised those who knew him. Jackson was fit and industrious, and never smoked. He had no history of heart trouble, and lived prudently. The habit of prudence was bred by his parents, Norwegian immigrants. Nicknamed Scoop after a comic-strip character who appeared in the Everett Herald (which he delivered for years), Jackson practiced frankness young: in the third grade, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he admitted he wanted Warren G.Harding...
DIED. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 71, six-term Democratic Senator from Washington and one of the most influential figures in U.S. politics; of a massive heart attack; in Everett, Wash, (see NATION...