Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody agreed that the bird showed military dash throughout. After perching at an approximate parade rest itself for five minutes ("about 20 minutes," insisted Hughes later), it took off as the corps was dismissed, made a brief dive-bombing run on a bald-headed civilian in the grandstand, and then flapped away...
...from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting his turn at bat, Ted added one more gesture that even the most proper Bostonians were sure to grasp: he turned and spat disgustedly in the direction of the grandstand...
Circumstantial evidence does not favor the first assumption. For a coach whose team lost eight of nine games, Valpey has received an amazingly minor share of grandstand criticism...