Word: sensationalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This placed Japan's 350,000 Christians on an equal footing with its 41,000,000 Buddhists and 16,000,000 Shintoists, put all religions under the supervision of the Education Department, provided for the suppression of any sect which deviated from Japanese national policy. The Government, full of...
Last week, in Manhattan's tabloid Sunday News, Sports Editor Jimmy Powers offered his 3,400,000 readers a bloodcurdling sensation as a possible explanation for the surprising collapse of the New York Yankees.
That was enough news for a normal week. But President Roosevelt had a far bigger sensation to pull out of his hat before the week was over. Rocking back in his desk chair, his big mole-speckled hands riding the chair arms, pleased at the hot-flash reception of his...
A British slang expression-which originated from a rider's sensation of breath less leveling off when his horse breaks from trot or canter into full gallop-is "flat out." Last week at last, Canada was flat out in her war effort.
Even at 20% of Coca-Cola's sales, Pepsi-Cola is the sensation of the industry. From just another local brand in 1930 it has climbed to second place in the soft-drink league, more than $2,000,000 ahead of third-place Canada Dry.