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Word: sensationalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was the attitude of a man who undoubtedly considered himself Stalin's legitimate heir. But crafty little Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian trader, had been chosen to deliver a speech (obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: Courtiers B. & K. | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Depriving the human mind of all sensation is the best preparation for brainwashing. Dr. Robert H. Felix, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, recently told the Senate Appropriations Committee about a new mind-purging technique worked out by Dr. John C. Lilly, one of his Institute colleagues.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Preparation for Brainwashing | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Lust & Reveries. For about 45 minutes, says Dr. Lilly, he was conscious of his surroundings and of recent events. He even enjoyed the sensation of being suspended in silence and darkness, with nothing whatever to do. But slowly during the next hour he developed an overwhelming "lust" for any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Preparation for Brainwashing | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

The Empire News series was such a coup in sensation-hungry Fleet Street that the Sunday Dispatch tried to run neck and neck by publishing installments from the diary of a second-string hangman named William Willis. But Pierrepoint was so far out ahead that the Dispatch had to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of the Rope | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: THEME & VARIATIONS | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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