Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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So rare in high political places was this particular sort of sensation that Washington had almost forgotten the name for it. The last notable roorback* in U.S. history had been the forgery of a James A. Garfield letter in 1880. Last week as a Washington grand jury pursued its investigation...
A popular sensation during the booming 1920s was Colonel Percy Fawcett, English explorer who, with his son Jack, tried to find "the Lost Atlantis" in the Brazilian wilderness. They disappeared. Recently Brazilian reporter Edmar Morel returned to civilization with a ghost-pale savage named Dulipé, who he claimed was...
On the Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a...
Russian science has reported another medical sensation: a serum which stimulates or inhibits the life processes of living tissue. The Russian scientists claim that the serum hastens wound healing, mends broken bones more quickly, increases the body's defenses against infection and cancer, may enable man to live to...
¶Sensation of the peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to...