Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Frozen Smile. So the income tax was crushed to earth again. It is possible to fix the day, the hour, the minute, almost the very second when it began to rise again, a rise that was to lead without serious check to the Great Disgorging of mid-March 1952...
*Written in 1854 by Pamphleteer-Editor T. S. Arthur, Ten Nights made almost as big a sensation as Uncle Tom's Cabin, quickly became the bible of temperance lecturers, was made into a play, set a whole nation singing "Father, dear father, come home with me now!" The lurid...
Search for a Hero, by Mississippian Thomas Hal Phillips, is the most successful. The hero, Don Meadows, is a quiet youngster who has long felt overshadowed by his football-playing brothers. Don's father doesn't think much of him either, and that is another reason Don volunteers...
A rocket flight in the Skyrocket, says Pilot Bridgeman, starts out peacefully enough. When the plane is dropped from its mother B-29 at 35,000 ft., there is a gentle sensation like going down in an elevator. When Bill "kicks on" his rocket motors, he feels a great push...
* Nonsmokers, whose eyes usually catch most of the smoke from burning cigarettes in the gesturing hands of companions, learned something else from the tests: the smarting sensation is caused by gaseous ammonia rising from the burning tip. The smoker usually doesn't get it because the ammonia passes through...