Word: sensationalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"Being men, they indulge in asides that aren't very nice. . . . Instead of looking embarrassed when remarks have been made directly to her, she looks very happy about the sensation she's creating.
The grey-clad figure who faced him over the threshold didn't look like a solicitor, though. In fact, Vag decided that his closest counterpart was the bronze gentleman who sat on a marble pedestal in front of University Hall. His prepared speech beginning "I always send my laundry home...
Dr. Armstrong (who made the first jump for science) had said: "[I felt as though I were] lowered slowly into a great bed of softest down." When his eyes were closed, he added, "all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in mid...
The public took the Greer incident (see col. 3) fatalistically. Something like this had long been expected, and it might have passed as a one-day sensation, as easily forgotten as the sinking of the Robin Moor. Said Isolationist Senator Bob Reynolds: "It was a very simple incident. ... It seems...
Died. John Lawrence Baird, Viscount Stonehaven, 67, onetime (1925-30) Governor General of Australia; in Stonehaven, Scotland. Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1931 to 1936, he created a minor political sensation in 1939 when his fear that Chamberlain appeasement meant restoration of German colonies led him to refuse to...