Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skeleton in Michigan's family closet popped into the open last week when Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' 15-year-old daughter Nancy penned for her school paper the hot scoop on why her daddy always wears a bow tie: Soapy is sloppy with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking...
...years ago the Chinese Communists, trying to curb an annual population growth of 15 million, revived the ancient Chinese myth that a dose of tadpoles after each meal is an effective oral contraceptive. Thousands of women promptly rushed to dirty lakes and rivers to scoop up tadpoles with rice bowls. One result: widespread schistosomiasis (infestation with blood flukes). Even worse, the government admitted ruefully last week, women who religiously swallow tadpoles get pregnant just the same...
...Never," brags Jackson, "have I violated confidences or tried to scoop fellow reporters by virtue of knowing something as a legislator that they might not know as newsmen." But it is fellow newsmen who have now brought Jackson's hat tricks under fire. John S. Knight's Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 161,624) lectured him on ethics in an editorial headed
...wants the scoop on jazz, and how it all begun, and what it meant to them that helped it get born. Well, you just wait a bit and Pete'll be in. He played it back before it had a name-back when they was discovering it. That is, they had something all the time, only didn't know, which is a thing a lot o' people don't understand; and they begin to believe this feller or that invented it-and it ain't so, cause I know better...
...that the Gezira needs to make it the most green and pleasant land in all of the Sudan is water. Because of the area's gentle slope, engineers have only to scoop canals to bring water flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan...