Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being a Famooser. The couple went to Sauk Center to visit the family and found themselves strangers, whereupon Lewis turned his home town into Main Street, an overnight literary sensation. Lewis was then 35, and Gracie thinks fame came too early. He and Gracie and their 3-year-old son...
Nasser's Egypt, restive under the pressures it was subjected to, decided to apply a few pressures of its own. Cairo's press blossomed out with stories of a pan-Arab underground pledged to blow up Western oil installations in the Middle East if Egypt should be attacked...
Two weeks earlier Vichy had been jarred by another kind of sensation. It was provided by one Count Foucou de Gines. Europe's decaying aristocracy has produced some exotic late blooms, and in its gaudiest days Vichy has seen the most flamboyant of them. But Count Foucou was something...
Overnight, Maria's clothes crisis became another front-page sensation. The fellow-traveling Avanti jumped at the chance to twit church papers: "[They] are evidently discontented with God, for they seek to change His creations." The nationwide hoopla was too much for Maria, and she refused to appear in...
One Big Life. Since it depends more than any other magazine on the pulling power of its cover, the one-shotter tends to sensation, and the very nature of the field attracts fly-by-nights with the hope of a quick killing. But the magazines vary violently from trash to...