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
But when it comes to Samsung, the family dynasty behind it is so complicated – and the company so crucial to the South Korean economy – that it's front-page news.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
“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
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
And finally, former model Rhian Sugden is set to release a new "tell-all" autobiography, according to the front page of the Daily Star.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
On the front page of the i Paper is the comment from police that there was "no sign of political motive" in the murder.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The main photograph on the Independent's front page shows Ann Widdecombe "enjoying her Devon retreat" that the paper says "became a crime scene".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
She held up the front page of the Carolina Times.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply trying to stir up a bit of mischief.
From Time Magazine Archive
Capital newsmen heard the story, and next day Washington papers front-paged it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last spring, from Hong Kong, he ostensibly entered the People's Republic and produced a five-part series that the paper front-paged.
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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