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Word: sensationalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bolivia last week had a kidnapping and a Presidential election. Of the two, the kidnapping stirred up the bigger sensation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Big Snatch? | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

In France Welles experienced a sensation of general expectancy. President Albert Lebrun seemed to have lost his memory. From ex-Premiers Blum and Herriot, Welles derived only the feeling that France's days were numbered. After his visit to Blum, Welles received 3,000 insulting letters from Frenchmen who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Welles Plan | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Turning from "light summer fare," The Cambridge Summer Theatre has in "Anna Christie" its most successful show of the season. Acted by a uniformly competent cast, the O'Neili play of the Sea, despite the fact that a woman in a bar-room is not the sensation it was twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 6/30/1944 | See Source »

The Civil Aeronautics Board, the smallest U.S. Government agency, last week took the biggest stride forward yet made in Federal postwar planning. The repercussions rattled the windows in airline offices all over the U.S. and shook those of every foreign embassy in Washington. Handsome, hard-working CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Take a Trip to Berlin. . . . | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

One-Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 4-Efforts | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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