Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis is an Oxford and Cambridge don who has long been an apostle to the well-educated agnostic. To scoop unbelievers out of the waters of doubt into the net of faith, Anglican Lewis uses all sorts of urbane literary lures ranging from Platonic debate (The Screwtape Letters) through self-confessions (Surprised by Joy) to Gothic-romantic fictional allegory (Perelandra). This last category, to which the present book belongs, displays Lewis at his most difficult...
...year troubleshooter. Smith raised money and tried to make Collier's a "magazine in depth." Instead, it went deeper into debt. Transformed into a fortnightly in 1953, Collier's lost more than $15 million, while editors and writers struggled to translate Smithology ("We want scope not scoop") into a working policy for the magazine. But Collier's never succeeded in developing a winning personality. In 1953, for the first time, the Companion also tripped into...
...from a Teddy Bear in Borgana fur to a hound dog inspired by Elvis Presley, and Steiff's life-size reindeer ($250). For the military minded, hot sellers are Marx's "Rin-tin-tin Fort Apache" and "Captain Gallant" ($6 apiece) and, among games, Parker Brothers' "Scoop...
...standing near the dry-mud river bed when they heard the sound of the water. Looking up, they watched a shallow yellow wave ripple across the valley floor, driving before it a bevy of small animals, insects and snakes. Overhead the pelicans circled by the hundreds, diving occasionally to scoop up a flopping fish. Scientists M. Lefevre and A. Bouchardeau hurried back to their base camp to report that for the first time since 1873 the waters were running in the Bahr el Ghazal, outlet of Central Africa's fabled Lake Chad...
...never got a scoop in my life. They never seemed to me to have any sense. Most scoops were bad stories. And they were always exaggerated and played up in an idiot manner...