Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renaissance is a coincidence wrapped in a contract inside an irony. The author's son Auberon acknowledges that the work is not worth "splashing around." Yet, he adds, "that's why we let the TLS have it." The journal then promotes this bottom-drawer curiosity as a "scoop," which is the title of Evelyn Waugh's classic satire on the press...
...little kid digging a hole in the sand, and all the adults who walked by told you to keep going and you'd end up in China? We all grew up with these aspects of romance. Did any of those elders ever add that you'd have to scoop out boiling lava when you hit the middle of the earth en route? Of course not. They--like Buffet--were content to nurture and protect romantic ideas without exposing them to reality...
...Chipwich cart. Chipwiches were the marketing phenomenon of Summer 1981. All around the city, hundreds of identical little brown carts sprang up and sold a single remarkable item; a scoop of ice cream between two chocolate-chip cookies, I only began to pass up the chipwich vendor when I realized that at a dollar a shot, I could buy two david's cookies and a small scoop of Haagen Dazs...
...long been a rule on this newspaper that to win election to the staff, a reporter must bring in a genuine scoop or two. Often that involves digging; sometimes it is a matter of luck; and occasionally it demands gall and not much more. When Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 came out for The Crimson, as they said in those days, he didn't have a lot of reportorial experience. He did, however, have pluck. And so, despite another longstanding custom--which forbade candidates for the paper from talking to the president of the College--he asked President Eliot...
...guarantee a spot. Or would it? The break that finally turned young Roosevelt into a Crimed came in April, when he called Teddy to see when they could get together. Why, right after I lecture in Government 1 tomorrow, the vice president said, and Roosevelt had his second scoop. He was elected an editor within a month...