An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
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Just now, as it happens, the price of gasoline receives front-page coverage and is flashed almost minute by minute on cable news shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
The Washington Post mentioned it in the 36th and final paragraph of its front-page story on McVeigh’s arrest.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
The trial at Oslo district court has lasted almost seven weeks and every day of evidence has been front-page news in Norway.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
“All the President’s Men” underscores that sentiment with its matter-of-fact final shot, watching a teletype machine writing out years of front-page headlines leading to Nixon’s resignation.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
American newspapers barely took notice: A story about a weather plane gone missing hardly qualified as front-page news.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Burnham is pictured with a pint on the front page of the Metro, following his announcement that pubs, clubs and some music venues will receive a 20% rate cut from April.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Though Widdecombe features on the front page of the Daily Mail, the paper's main story focuses on Burnham's first pledges as prime minister - and how he might pay for them.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The front page also features a photograph of a smiling Sir Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shaking hands, next to the caption: "United front: Zelensky welcomes PM on final trip to Ukraine".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The front page is one of several that feature a photo of footballer Jude Bellingham, ahead of Wednesday's World Cup semi-final match between England and Argentina.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
There was a great column, all down the front page, and an awful blurred photograph of Maxim that must have been taken at least fifteen years ago.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
That Sunday, the Times front-paged a further downsizing from the vocabulary of evil, psychologizing the murderous Chechen bros with what seemed like existentialist anxiety, by speculating that “signs of alienation” may explain the crime.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2013
Newspapers front-paged pictures of the sailor perched on the statue, printed yards of invective against the "barbaric yanqui vandals."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from its able Vatican reporter, Camille Cianfarra, indicating that not only had St. Peters' tomb been discovered but his bones as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they front-paged what I felt about Northern white and black Freedom Riders going South to “demonstrate.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Two exceptions were the Washington Star-News and the Louisville Courier-Journal, which managed to cut through the intricacies by front-paging capsule highlights of Nixon's statement in addition to giving more detailed stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
See the one shrivel who goes around front-paging his age.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph
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