Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Choking Sensation. The first to discover that the smog had assumed peculiar qualities was a man walking home late at night. He was seized with a paroxysm of choking. But he had little time to reflect on the fact that the fog had assumed an odd, penetrating odor. He...
Others awakened to experience the same awful choking sensation. By morning, as the fourth day of fog began, more were dead and scores of people were complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma...
Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her...
Sir: ... I read your review of The Lost Art of Profanity [TIME, Sept. 27] with a sensation of pain and disappointment. Was it not enough that the devil should get in his lick with the author? Must the satanic literary abnormalities of Burges Johnson and Henry Mencken be flaunted by...
treated with a threshold-raising drug must be slapped harder than usual before he considers the sensation a painful one.