Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most often mentioned alternatives to Carter and Kennedy were Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. One Senator, a well-known backer of Carter, reported "a movement building for Fritz Mondale in the Senate." There was also some talk of drafting Washington Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson to give the ticket conservative balance. Of the choices, Muskie might be the most attractive because he has broad appeal and would not have to support the Carter Administration on the campaign trail-an unenviable problem that would confront Mondale...
...uncommon in the grass-green and asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...
These horses will have a host of stable-boys, in the form of delegates and media types who will predictably pander to their every need, all the while carrying out a self-fabricated race of their own, for the big "scoop" or the nearest urinal. They will wear buttons extolling their favorite horse--or the only horse, as the case...
...time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help you. But two officers who had just been shot at watch the reporter as he comes out; "want a scoop?" they asked, "Get in the back...
...Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson of Illinois offered an amendment to an Israeli aid bill that would have withheld $150 million of the $785 million in economic grants to Israel until Jerusalem imposed a moratorium on new settlements. The measure was defeated 85 to 7. A day before, Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, the Washington Democrat who has long been one of Israel's best friends in Congress, told the Washington Star that Prime Minister Menachem Begin had lost some American support by "taking an intransigent position" on the settlements...