Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the one hand, Austria hoped for U.S.-British aid and dreaded being left in the lurch by the West. A simple news item like General Mark Clark's confinement to Walter Reed Hospital (because of an ear infection) created a minor sensation. Jittery Chancellor Leopold Figl, formerly a...
The patient first notices a pins-&-needles sensation in his legs. After a time his head and shoulders may twitch, his eyeballs roll wildly, he sees double, reels when walking, stumbles in his speech, from time to time is seized by uncontrollable laughing or crying jags. In advanced stages he...
Leahy's calm abolition of the Rockne shift amounted to heresy at Notre Dame. But one father, plain-talking Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, now Notre Dame's president, came to his aid: "A man is a real success when he knows what God wants him to do and...
All this happened back in 1939-when it was a tabloid sensation. Last week in Los Angeles Eileen Herrick Lowther sued George Lowther III for divorce.
At week's end, when the Williamsburg moved into Narragansett Bay, he was sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white...