Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winthrop's Puritans, led by Norm Hall, upset Leverett--House football league champions--12 to 0 yesterday afternoon. In the other twilight game, Lowell created a minor sensation by scoring its first touchdown of the season but lost to Dudley, 7 to 6.
If the President of the U.S. develops a slight cold, a few sensation-hungry newsmen usually mix the germs with rumors and conclude that it is something far worse. Dwight Eisenhower has had his share of the usual plague of rumors. Before he got the Republican nomination last year, the...
Because such transgression is rare and is handled with a minimum of sensation, most Princetonians are not aware of any infractions around them. "I never saw a student cheat on exams in my 4 years," they frequently say.
"The success of the London Daily Mirror," lamented the staid London Economist, "is a sore reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, that prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation." Nevertheless, just that style of journalism has made the Mirror the biggest daily in the world...
Rothermere quickly became outraged by the Mirror's sex and sensation, changed its style. He set the Mirror out on a dull and endless campaign against national "Squandermania," tried to capture readers with a series of giveaways and contests. "In a decade of brashness," says Historian Cudlipp, "the Mirror...