Word: sensationalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Door Shuts. Arrest came to Author Koestler with the words "Hands up!", and he learned how it feels to have a revolver chilling the back of one's neck. Near the base of his skull he felt "a faint itching, a sort of sucking void, not entirely unpleasant...
H. A. and Milo. When he arrived in Washington in 1935, Perkins was just a routine curiosity: a successful businessman who had embraced the New Deal. But after he thought up the food-stamp plan for giving surplus food to poor families - a scheme that pleased grocers as much as...
Not since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer created an international uproar in 1849 by appearing in public in voluminous Turkish trousers had such a feminine trouser sensation swept the country. High-school girls in Brooklyn's big Abraham Lincoln High School struck for the right to wear slacks. In Detroit Mayor...
>Pilots Raymond Hastey and Gil Bright took on seven Japs at 21,000 feet. Hastey was on a Jap's tail, firing, when an unnoticed Jap behind shot off the tail of his plane. Hastey stayed with the tumbling wreck for nearly a mile, then bailed out. To give...
Tabouis' wealth of information and insight worked as much against as for her. She became less a guide than a sensation. They called her Cassandra, forgetting that it was not Cassandra but the Trojans who would not listen to her who made the big mistake. For France did not...