Word: scoopings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This] issue of TIME is one long and enormous scoop...
...Britain, the timing of the Nazi attack-too late to make the Sunday morning papers-gave Winston Churchill the chance to scoop the entire British press. Over the radio he electrified the nation with an immediate and resonant declaration: "No one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I have for the last 25 years. I will unsay no words that I have spoken about it. But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding...
This week Winston Churchill got an honorary doctorate of laws in absentia from the University of Rochester, his first degree from a U.S. university. The reason the Prime Minister permitted Rochester to stage the kudos scoop of the year was that his mother, born Jennie Jerome, was a native of Rochester. But by a strange paradox, Mr. Churchill accepted the degree from a Quaker who for two years has fought to prevent the U.S. from joining Britain in the war and is a good friend of arch-isolationist Charles Lindbergh-Rochester's President Alan Valentine...
...Scoop. Newscaster Shirer knew that the Germans had hidden microphones in the armistice car. So he looked until he found a sound truck in the woods. "No one stops me so I pause to listen. It is just before the armistice is signed. I hear General Huntziger's voice, strained, quivering. I note down his exact words in French. They came out slowly, with great effort, one at a time. He says...
...after Abend obtained a three-day scoop on the Japan-Axis pact, there were five threats by telephone. Next day there were more. Then anonymous letters began to arrive. So Timesman Abend said a sad farewell to his two Scotties and one dachshund, began a long inspection tour of the democratic bastions in the Far East that took him to Singapore, The Netherlands East Indies, the Philippines, back to the U.S. In part his book is a report of what he saw, in part it is a report of his years as a journalistic China hand...