Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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† Shot and killed in 1906 by Playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had once been White's mistress. Thaw pleaded temporary insanity, was acquitted of murder in a lurid trial that was a front-page sensation.
Composed of a single plastic and Fiberglas shell mounted on legs, the new chair is more roomy, stable and luxurious, but just as simple as its predecessor. Pictures of the chair were being reproduced in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and an enthusiastic House Beautiful editor rhapsodically described it as...
No, argued Heckscher. The Post's old friends "are not actually averse to sex. [But they dislike] having their sex dished up as bait. The only thing worse than an obviously bad paper is a paper . . . which is obviously good and makes ugly sounds as a matter of deliberate...
Married. Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe, 18, daughter of Cinemactress Mary (Dodsworth) Astor and second husband Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, whose 1936 courtroom squabble over her custody became a sexy tabloid sensation; and Frank John Roh Jr., 27, University of Southern California graduate student (drama); in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
¶ Hunger is not necessarily a sensation caused by contractions of the empty stomach. Such pangs usually disappear during acute starvation; they are severe in semi-starvation, but may actually be worse when refeeding has begun. Men whose stomachs have been removed still feel hunger. Another word than "hunger" is...