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Word: sensationalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trans-Pecos "participation ownership" was a sensation. Labor called it an N.A.M. plot to smash the unions. Business called it a communist revolution. Communists denounced it as a bourgeois counterrevolution. Goons and saboteurs beat up the workers and tried to wreck the plant. But "in the nick of time, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postwar Commonwealth | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Mr. Van Druten has written and staged with the tasteful touch that made "Voice of the Turtle" a Broadway sensation. His characterizations in "I Remember Mama" have a human quality that few in the American theatre have achieved: the irresistible simplicity of good, kind, honest people.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

Robinson's first published cartoon was a drawing of a professor gravely examining birds' footprints in the sand, while a fascinated bird followed the strange human track. He produced a mad catalogue of patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: W. Heath Robinson | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Deanna hasn't successfully graduated from the teen-age singing sensation stage, with the possible exception of "The Amazing Mrs. Holliday." And from Mrs. Holliday to Christmas Holiday, the proof is fairly conclusive that perhaps the wistful and appealing warbler should stop trying to graduate, turn over a new leaf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

Fielding sensation of the summer base. The initial sacker handled 104 chances, making but one error, for a .990 fielding average. Capaccio and Art Conlon, the left fielder, both played errorless ball in the outer pastures.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapple Leads Batsmen as Stahlmen Conclude Season | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

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