Word: scoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after he ran into the boss, supercharged Louis Seltzer was city editor of the Press. At 20, having proved that he could hold the job, he quit it to get more experience as a legman and political reporter. (In 1924, covering the Democratic Convention, he got an 18-day scoop on the nomination of John W. Davis.) He knew his town like a well-thumbed diary when he became the Press's editor at 30. He also well remembered Founder Scripps's publishing maxim: "Stay close to the people...
...done jobs as marvelous as the Berlin air lift before. Take the time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox dug the St. Lawrence River in three weeks. When Billy Pilgrim tried to make it tough for Babe by wetting and stretching the buckskin ropes attached to the scoop shovel, Babe just sat down until the sun came out and dried the ropes. As they dried they shrank, and pulled that scoop for miles & miles up to Babe. And there was the St. Lawrence, practically...
Only once is there a mention in the book of the sweat that most reporters distill trying to find words to fit their big news. Charles A. Lindbergh handed a scoop and a Pulitzer prize to old friend Lauren ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times when he sailed into exile (1935) after his baby was kidnaped. All afternoon, Lyman sweated over 13 different leads before, in desperation, he settled on a routine Times lead, such as he had written a thousand times...
...Louis drugstores began selling a ten-scoop, multiflavored ice cream sundae called "Forever Ample...
...land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking of Waugh's novels, reported the lunacies of Communist and fascist revolts in another African state whose savagery and ignorance were excelled only by the savagery and ignorance of the great British press organization marshaled to cover...