Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boy Wonder. Arrau had taught himself to read music at four, played his first recital at five without even taking a lesson. At seven, the Chilean Government paid his way to Europe for ten years' study. He was no sensation on his first U.S. visit in 1923. He stayed...
His key colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician...
For crack, French-born Photographer Jean Manzon, Barreto Pinto had posed in shorts, mugged in the bathtub, pranced weirdly on the beach. When the pictures were printed in the weekly O Cruzeiro, they were a sensation; copies of the 15? magazine sold for $1.
Straight Shooter. The sensation of the meeting, however, was a brand-new type of machine which promises to outpower the cyclotron. Prosaically named the "linear accelerator," it is a tube which shoots its nuclear bullets straight instead of in a circle. The idea came from two crack young physicists, M.I.T...
When a news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire. By last week the disappearance from France of Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was firmly established as I'affaire Mufti. The man himself was a character straight out of a...