Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home. Her American pupils, she reported, "greet me with anything from 'The top of the morning to you' to 'Tallyho,' and occasionally when they are changing classes, a head pokes through the doorway and calls, 'Hi ya, ma'am, what's the scoop?' or something equally imbecilic...
Monsoons in Calcutta. The steering gear broke down and had to be replaced. The sun beating through the window of the jeep turned it into a galloping greenhouse. "I got her livable," says Carlin, "at the cost of chronic bronchitis. A port with an air scoop played a jet of air into my left...
...Press Conference program, Producer Martha (Meet the Press) Rountree dreamed up a new TV formula: a scoop a show. The first Press Conference was too successful. Editors across the U.S. lambasted both the show and U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell for using it to break news of an impending Justice Department antimonopoly suit against General Motors (TIME, July...
...until Washington's needling Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson questioned him about his famous crack "phony" (TIME, July 2) did Engine Charlie's practiced patience wear thin. Wilson had said that he meant a reporter's question about congressional appropriations raised a "phony" issue, but Democratic Senators contended he had accused Congress of taking a "phony" stand...
...General L. C. Metheny, 49, a cool, sharp planner. Metheny & Co. began setting up the Army line with a long series of staff studies, transmitted first to the Army general staff and later to the field commanders. Liaison was established with sympathetic Democratic Senators, e.g., Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson. One of Metheny's planners answered General Scott's Air Force paper with A Decade of Insecurity Through Global Air Power. Not yet, however, could the . Army break into the open. Still ahead was another conference in Puerto Rico-this time a meeting of the Joint Chiefs...