Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Real Scoop...
...adoption of a "convocation week" to permit learned societies to hold their meetings at some other time than during the summer vacation. This action was taken as a result of the request made by a committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. FDR's Big Scoop...
Ronald Reagan still reads the comic strips and he still eats jelly beans, scooping a dozen into the palm of his left hand, popping them one by one into his mouth with his right hand. Most decisions during his first twelve months involved one-scoop problems. Ready or not, 1982 may be a two-scoop year...
...timely scoop by hastily deciding (on Arledge's orders, at 1 a.m. Saturday) to switch to Gaddafi as guest. In slightly fractured English, Gaddafi scornfully denied that he had sent a killer squad to the U. S. Neither his word nor his record entitles credence, yet in the next hour nobody on the program even mentioned, let alone discussed his denial. Perhaps it was Gaddafi's appearance that was so scary, as he huddled, dressed in collarless brown shirt and engulfed in a blue cape. As his head bobbed upward and backward, his eyes rolling...
Though he fears that anything might shatter Poland's fragile state, severing him permanently from his family and homeland, he wishes to vacation in Poland again soon. But one friend warned, between beers and commercials. "If you go back, [the government] will scoop...