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Word: sensationalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As for the sensation, I felt buoyant to the point of exaltation. And not necessarily because of the novelty alone. To Stallings, after 38 hours, zero gravity is old hat, yet he still feels exhilarated by it, aptly calls it "like swimming without getting wet." Airman Brett got no such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: HOW TO GO WEIGHTLESS | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Self & Sensation. The case of the hipster is not so hopeful. He is a rebel without a cause who shirks responsibility on the ground that he has the H-bomb jitters. His disengagement from society is so complete that he treats self as the only reality and cultivates sensation as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Disorganization Man | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

ON a billboard in front of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is a picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Overnight Righetti became a nationwide sensation. His flock rallied to him and from the courtyard 20 ft. below sent up food to his window in a basket on a rope. Crowds gathered, and Righetti decided he might usefully preach from his window. "I don't know how long I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Pastor of Fondi | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

The challenge is grim. A person with no sensation in his legs or arms cannot even feel in those limbs the burn of an oven-hot radiator, the pain of a hard fall, the bed sores that breed serious infection-all bad risks that he must be alert to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Back to Life | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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