Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the 1929 season drew to a climax, the fame of Yale's "Little Boy Blue" spread. Fans all over the nation awaited the clash between the 5 ft., 7 in., 145-1b. sophomore sensation and Harvard's Barry Wood.
As for Saturday night's contest, its outcome would seem to depend upon the health of sophomore sensation Bob Mlkvy, the younger brother of the famed "Owl without a vowel," Bill. Mlkvy broke his left leg in a November practice, and is just beginning to return to form.
"Three Bags Full." Warming to his denunciations, Khrushchev turned on his recent guest, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "In the expectation of a noisy sensation, Humphrey, in his speeches and articles, told fairy tales, three bags full, such as the story that he had brought a special message...
From the moment Trouper Verdon turns plain Essie into a glittering song-and-dance girl, Redhead stops being deadhead. Her articulate hands, toes and torso are parts of speech and her lines are more pleasing than the script's. Her body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes...
Forbidding Fruit. Fromm sees the same basis for the great popularity of psychoanalysis since the early 19305, especially in the U.S.: "Here is a middle class for whom life has lost meaning . . . Yet they are in search of a meaning, of an idea to devote themselves to, of an explanation...