Word: sensationalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The most characteristic and striking manifestation of his political independence came in a motion suggesting impeachment of President Jefferson. His unexpected attack upon the President evidently created a great sensation in Washington. Representatives bobbed up, violently censuring Quincy for his resolution, and when the vote came, only the name of...
¶Oldest and best known is scholarly, affable George Cohen, 40, whose The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve caused something of a sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round...
Stock Sensation. While many eyes are set on the European small car and its new U.S. competitors, Daimler-Benz is out to grab a heftier share of the big-car market. The U.S. already buys 10% of its production, and its U.S. sales are racing 160% ahead of last year...
¶Washington's bright young (23) bruiser Harmon Killebrew is a sensation of the season in his first full playing year in the majors. No mere flash in the spring, Killebrew is hitting with such power that he leads the league in both home runs and runs batted in...
Savonarola added withering philippics on the tyranny of Lorenzo the Magnificent to his repertory of complaints against the church. Sensation-hungry Florentines packed in to hear his denunciations, and when friends warned him not to anger the powerful Lorenzo, Savonarola replied grimly: "Though I am here a stranger and he...