Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task not only by Navy Seabees from ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop out debris with their hands. Orders, screamed out in any of several languages, often went unheard. At night the wreckage looked especially eerie as workers kept digging under the harsh glare of floodlights...
...case against the fallen business hero, charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his faltering De Lorean Motor Co. The broadcast came only nine days before jury selection was to start in the trial in Los Angeles. While CBS officials were pleased by their scoop, prosecutors and defense lawyers, plus many of the network's peers in journalism, denounced CBS for unnecessarily jeopardizing John De Lorean's right to a fair trial...
...decision to run the tapes to baser motives, and wondered what purpose had been served by not waiting for the trial. Nat Hentoff, a New York City journalist and longtime First Amendment defender, charges that CBS's purpose was "titillation and sensationalism," an example of how the "scoop syndrome sometimes becomes a disease." Concludes Hentoff: "They have every right to do it, but they ought to be ashamed of themselves...
Like Dunster House, Leverett also offers eggs in the form of a ham and egg sandwich, one of their most popular items. To complete the line of dairy products. Leverett serves six kinds of ice cream which managers will scoop of frappe. Imported from the outside world is the "Chippey Pie," an ice cream sandwich trimmed with chocolate chips--a cousin of the popular Chipwicin sold by street vendors...
...Madam!" Hollings finally exclaimed. "Could I please have a scoop of vanilla? If you please...