Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McClellan (D-Ark.), committee chairman, challenged the Teamsters Union to find out for itself whether the charges against its president are "fact or fiction...
When time machines were popular in science fiction, a frequent plot was to call up some primitive and drop him into the beehive of urban activity his old stamping grounds had become--an Iroquois in Times Square, for example. When Garcia Lorca arrived in New York in the summer of 1929 his predicament must have been similar...
Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues; and perhaps he felt he had himself made enough public use of his own life. In spite of his request, the six years since his death have left us three biographies and countless articles about his life...
...months Wall Street has been talking about a "profit squeeze" as if it were an indisputable fact for industry as a whole. Last week, as a flood of first-quarter-earnings reports poured out, the profit squeeze proved to be more fiction than fact. The firms that could not offset rising costs with increased business were far outnumbered by those that showed profits still on the upgrade. The profit squeeze did show up in the sense that earnings often failed to keep pace with the increase in sales. But overall corporate profits for 1957's first quarter were expected...
...Mountain Peak has to be read to be disbelieved. It is cornball escape fiction of a kind that has been difficult to escape ever since the sahibs laid down the white man's burden and picked up the portable typewriter...