Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After removing a dead officer from one of the midget submarines destroyed at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy found the other half of its two-man crew still tightly wedged in the ship's bowels. Unable to scoop it out conveniently, the Navy sliced a 15-foot after-section from the core of the sub and, with full Naval honors, laid the makeshift coffin to rest in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard...
There was no attempt to scoop anyone else. In the Harvard Press Box any attempt would be the height of futility any-how. Six reporters are packed into a space designed for five; reporters spend a good bit of time sitting down and grow accordingly. It would be impossible not to read over the shoulder of your neighbor two down, and your next door pal can't even think without his brain waves vibrating in your ears...
...went to the University of Chicago, became campus correspondent for the Chicago Record, graduated, went to work as a reporter on space rates, some weeks earning as much as 75?. Just as the ax was about to fall, he came on the dream of a cub reporter: a big scoop. Chicago newspapers had been looking for a missing Mamie Doane for weeks. Returning from the morgue one day, where he had inspected a drowned possible Mamie, young Harold had a bright idea: why not call on the Doanes? Mrs. Doane greeted him: "Come in, young man. Mamie just got home...
...Your scoop on the story appearing in TIME, Aug. 18, telling of the appointment of Judge Rosenman as official clean-up man for the defense-program tangle was most interesting...
...Panama, Ceferino de Gracia tried to scoop fish from a creek, choked to death when a fish jumped down his throat...