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Word: sensationalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having pepped up the miracle with Sentiment, Warner Brothers now adds Sensation. The gimmick is a completely irrelevant side plot about some scheming Red politicians who twirl their mustaches viciously and torture little children. I suppose the idea was to offer a double-barreled attraction, timeless religion and current politics...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Miracle of Fatima | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

The legend of Conant the Wandering Scholar therefore has little substance. An undergraduate impression--also shared by many alumni and even some faculty members--that is harder to kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: James Bryant Conant: The Chemist as President, The President as Defender of the Free University | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Nearly half a million Americans bought The Mature Mind. Its psychological nostrums and all-too-truisms gave its readers the heady sensation of doing mental pushups by the dozen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mental Pushups | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Fine Details. But Camrose's own favorite publication is not a magazine; it is his London Daily Telegraph, his only newspaper, which is run as a separate corporation. He picked it up when it was floundering with a circulation of only 84,000, built it up until it rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Berry Brothers | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

But the 1952 Olympics would also mark the end of some past enmities. Both Japan and West Germany were competing again in the Olympics for the first time since World War II. Germany's Olympic trials had already produced a sensation when Werner Lueg, a 20-year-old West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Strength of Ten | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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