Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In trying Eichmann, Israel has a responsibility to create an atmosphere in which some degree of dispassionate thinking is possible. Everyone hates Eichmann and the era he represents. No one understands him or the sources of his inhumanity. Yet these publicity arrangements indicate that Israel is only interested in staging...
The U.S. Senate's Interior Committee finally approved one of the most controversial of President Kennedy's political appointees last week, but not without a wrangle that caused a sensation in the placid Virgin Islands and some raised eyebrows in Washington. At issue was the appointment of Millionaire...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's walkout from the Commonwealth sent a tremor through the Union of South Africa. Many of the English-speaking minority felt a sinking sensation as their last link with Britain was severed. Diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer called the news "appalling." Said Johannesburg's Englishlanguage...
Until this season few two-dollar bettors had ever heard of Jockey Johnny Sellers, 23, a deferential, crew-cut kid who looks as out of place among the tough little men of the track as a boy scout in the Mafia. But Sellers is the nation's newest jockey...
Intimate Enmity. The earliest work in the volume, dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is...