Word: scoopfuls
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...months later she will remember the details of the conversation. She cares about what you say and who you are. Or, you might know Vicky’s smile from the pages of “Roving Reporter” where her smirk brags that she has the scoop, the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop. And you don’t. You may be a good friend of Vicky’s, in which case you are most probably gay, Jewish and a ManRay frequenter. Friend Vicky surprises you with her sexy gyrations to N’Sync?...
...uneven you had to notice the way the letters made themselves. Doing paste-up with an X-acto knife that more than once sliced my finger open, smearing blood onto the layout sheet. Swiping down the dripping offset plates so they could be loaded onto the cylinders. Scrambling to scoop the fresh-newsprint-smelling pages as they swarmed off new, and then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they slid together cleanly in thick blocks and the newsprint rubbed its way into every swirl and crevice in the pads of your...
...organizations have closed their mailrooms. Government agencies and legislators are leaving constituent mail in bags. Pranksters are taxing first responders so heavily that frustrated law enforcement officers are threatening to put perpetrators in jail for life if they catch them. Hazmat teams are being rushed here and there to scoop up what most of the time turns out to be spilled coffee creamer, salt, dirt, or baby powder...
...TIME: Why do you want to leave Japan? Kyoko: Our fame is suffocating for us. Journalists will write anything about us because they know our names will sell magazines. Just this week, a weekly magazine said it had a huge scoop about Mika -- and it turned out to be a publicity photo of her swinging a golf club at a charity tournament, in which you could see a faint outline of her nipples. Some scoop. Japan is a small country. People can't help but be obsessed with what other people are thinking or doing. The media asks us what...
...question of whether to curtail or edit some types of new coverage for national security reasons is a different issue. But about that there really isn't much to debate either. Would anyone claim that a scoop is so important that it's worth jeopardizing the lives of U.S. military personnel...