Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The freshman team was a sensation in its 3:23.3 mile-relay win. Its time bettered the varsity's and just about every other freshman team this year except Villanova's. Keith Colburn anchored with a fantastic :49.8 quarter.
"MORALISTS are unhappy people," wrote Jacques Maritain. A great many Americans are turning into unhappy moralists about the war in Viet Nam. It is a new sensation. Americans are accustomed to feeling right about the fights they get into. The majority probably still feels right-but troubled. The President summed...
She was Mary Garden, and as debuts go, her magical performance at Paris' Opéra Comique that night might have been staged by her fairy godmother. The year was 1900, and Mary, Scotland-born and Chicago-reared, was an impoverished young soprano who haunted rehearsals at the Comique...
Always the modern woman, she created a sensation when she appeared at a dinner party in a daringly low-cut gown; when Socialite Chauncey Depew asked her what was holding it up, she cooed, "Your age and my discretion." Outfitted in the latest fashions and draped with $500,000 worth...
Anecdotes & Tactics. He was quite willing on occasion to let art overwhelm him. One time after he had acquired a Cézanne, he presented it to his seminar and began to expostulate on its form. Suddenly he stopped, exploded, "My God, just look at it!" This is the sensation...