Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elusiveness, Dukakis has met his match in Gore. For months Gore had been floundering as he groped to find a rationale for his candidacy more compelling than Georgia Senator Sam Nunn's failure to enter the race. Gore kept trying to identify himself as a hawk almost in the Scoop Jackson mold even as his private pollsters were insisting that Democratic voters in the South were as uninterested in nuclear strategy as voters elsewhere. But Gore stubbornly refused to modify his approach, even though his record was far less right-of-center than his rhetoric was. According...
...machinery still works. Sixty years after The Front Page hit Broadway, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce retains its manic energy and toxic bite. Gags still pinwheel out of the plot -- the one about a managing editor trying to scoop the world on a big story while keeping his ace reporter from deserting him to get married. And, as three previous movie incarnations have proved, The Front Page turns briskly whether the reporter is a man (Pat O'Brien in 1931, Jack Lemmon in 1974) or the boss's ex-wife (Rosalind Russell | in the 1940 His Girl Friday...
After reading The Crimson's recent article, "Knocking on the Final Clubs' Closed Doors," I felt a sudden empathy for Gary Hart. I, like Gary Hart, had been victimized by a reporter out for a big scoop. Unfortunately, as a result of the reporter's hubristic hype and salacious sensationalism, I fear that the final club debate will degenerate into an even more misunderstood dialogue of the deaf...
...East Germany's normally stolid Neues Deutschland, it was a rare scoop. The Communist Party daily reported last week that Soviet troops were preparing to dismantle the first of 54 SS-12 nuclear missiles in East Germany that are scheduled to be scrapped under the U.S.-Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. The move came as the accord continued to meet stiff opposition during a U.S. Senate debate over its ratification...
...triple goes in--as it does with alarming frequency--the Tigers have three points and five frustrated opponents. If it doesn't drop, then the Tigers sometimes scoop up the loose rebound, and get set for another countdown, without bothering to wake anyone...