Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman tennis sensation Erika deLone--far andaway the best female tennis player ever to comethrough Harvard--announced in a team meeting herintentions to leave the College and pursue aprofessional tennis career.
Don't get me wrong: The gum was always disgusting. This was not normal gum. It was hard, brittle, implausibly pink and covered with a puzzling flour-like substance. All in all, not a particularly pleasing gustatory sensation.
In the moral flatness of button-pushing sensation, the truck-driver video accomplished the amazing task of nullifying the Rodney King video. The dumb, blunt message of the Rodney King video was: white cops are monsters beating defenseless blacks. The bottom-feeders' message of the truck-driver video was that...
My 13-year-old taste buds still weren't very mature (Pizza Hut rated higher than four star restaurants in Chinatown), but once a sip of syrupy Coke had settled the last of the perfect gravy-con-carrot-beef-potato mixture in my stomach, they recognized a new, wonderful sensation...
Each time Harvard made even the slightest defensive error in the fourth frame, the Tigers capitalized. Behind sophomore sensation Kevin Lowe (I goal, 4 assists), gargantuan senior Justin Tortolani (3 goals) and surprise star junior John Burstein (3 goals), Princeton rattled off goal after goal.