Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bundled in a special harness, lying (in the foetal position, which was thought to be safest) between two poles which held up a nylon loop, Doster watched a Stinson Voyager plane swoop down, suddenly felt himself lifting easily. ("No jerking sensation at all.") A winch pulled him up into the...
This stampede made a newspaper sensation-to the immense gratification of Ralph Edwards, publicity-minded M.C. of radio's Truth or Consequences program. There was more to the story-a preface and an epilogue.
Salvador Dali showed the world his conception of syphilis last week. For sheer sensation, the serpentine horror painted by the showmanly Spaniard easily ran away with the honors at a Manhattan exhibition of 24 health posters, intended for postwar Europe.
It was very dark and the air was choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of...
When Elsa Maxwell advised Hollywood that a "black tie" was the only suitable way to celebrate the freeing of Paris, the ice broke. Last week, after three winters of wartime underdressing, U.S. partygoers were back in evening clothes. In Manhattan, Broadway first-nighters showed up in dinner jackets and long...