Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Front Man." Brown is a whiz-bang campaigner with a wide personal following, and he has been working for Cranston as if his own political neck were at stake-as indeed it may be. "Big Daddy" Unruh, on the other hand, is an organization man who has about him the aura of the political boss. His work for Salinger has been behind the scenes; on the theory that his endorsement might hurt more than help, he has not come out publicly for Pierre...
Lodge's backers hope for a big Oregon win, are moving to stop Goldwater by backing Rockefeller in the June 2 winner-take-all primary in California, where Lodge is not on the ballot, write-ins are not allowed, and 86 delegates are at stake...
...prisoner was strapped to a wooden stake and, against his wishes, blindfolded with a black scarf. Then a military police captain barked an order to the black-helmeted, ten-man firing squad lined up 30 ft. from the prisoner, and the soldiers raised their U.S.-made carbines. The captain shouted: "Ban!" (Fire!). There was a ragged volley. Then the prisoner's body slumped against the straps, and blood began to flow over the high-necked black robe and white silk pantaloons. Pistol drawn, the captain strode forward, delivered the coup de gráce behind the left...
...sold a few short stories for marks in Germany and peanuts in the little magazines like transatlantic review. Gertrude Stein had told him he was not yet good enough for the Saturday Evening Post, and he was trying to beat the horses at Auteuil and Enghien to stake a trip to Pamplona to see the bullfights...
Hemingway had to win, even when others were unaware that anything was at stake. In lesser men, this is now called oneupmanship, and it made taxing for Hemingway the ordinary business of living. He aspired to the natural grace and integrity of the truly simple man, but often seems to have achieved something closer to the contrived spontaneity of the method actor. The exactions of pride were made tolerable by an equally vast joviality-a humor that could be gentle or sardonic, and served as mask, armor and weapon of his severe stoicism...