Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories of science and invention, popularly told, and local school notes) and domestic stories (of family-life, "happy reunion" pictures, brides and grooms...
...Secondly, that despite the satisfaction given by the Egyptian Government concerning the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, the Chamber regrets to note that the British Government has seen fit to exploit this sad incident for the benefit of its imperialistic aims and to wreak vengeance upon a pacific nation which can only rely upon the justice and right of its cause...
Pastor Shaw was wary. He felt certain the Press was trying to exploit a preacher for gain and would start a circulation drive so soon as he accepted the '"challenge." So one forenoon he telephoned the Press, saying he would accept the invitation and was going over to assume his office directly. The Press regretted that Pastor Shaw had not notified it a little earlier. Some editions were already at press. Pastor Shaw would have to wait...
...LaFollette whirlwind, out of which a loud voice spoke continually, swept into Illinois after wrenching at Republican and Democratic strongholds up and down the Mississippi Basin. "This campaign," said the candidate in Rock Island, "is between those who produce wealth and those who exploit wealth...
...mutually agreeable understanding for protection, in proposed oil legislation to regulate Constitutional Article 27, of rights to exploit petroleum deposits under lands acquired prior to the inception of the 1917 Constitution on which the owners or lessors had not previously undertaken or made contracts for petroleum exploration, nor manifested intention...