Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, F.D.R. wrote: "In some way I was a number of years ago given credit for getting a scoop from President Eliot in regard to the way he was going to vote in the autumn of 1900. The real man who got that scoop was Albert W. DeRoode, now a lawyer in New York City, and he should have the credit...
...going to lecture in Lowell's Gov 1 course in Sanders the next morning. He would be glad to see them afterward. F.D.R. raced for the CRIME and reported his story. "Young man," the managing editor is supposed to have replied, "you hit page one tomorrow morning." The scoop appeared, Sanders Theatre was swamped, and F.D.R. gained election that June...
...Hycon Mfg. Co.), who stalked out as Air Force research chief last year in protest against lagging missile development, suggested a new look at the Oppenheimer case "in light of today's problems." Senate Democrats took up Gardner's theme. Declared Washington's Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson: it would be "entirely proper for the AEC to arrange a rehearing and a reconsideration in light of present circumstances." Chorused Florida's George Smathers: "We must do everything we can to enlist all the brainpower on our side." Said New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, vice...
Congratulations on your color spread of the mighty Atlas fizzle at three miles. The Russians also had a scoop at the same time − which beat us by 557 miles. When will the U.S. awaken - or will high-level bickering and indifference, strikes at atomic weapon plants, and official stupidity prevail...
Down the Drain? Caught between camps were Southern moderates and erstwhile Northern liberals, e.g., Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Idaho's boyish Frank Church, Washington's Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, Montana's Mike Mansfield, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, who had voted in Congress for a watered-down civil rights bill on which both North and South could agree. Chief architect and proud father of the compromise was Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who last week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough...