Word: stunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Autobahnen by daylight in Roden's Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef...
...least understood. It is not sheer volume of work or novelty of expression; it is not always virtuous. Creativity is what Feodor Dostoevsky had: a tremendous capacity for sustained, self-motivated work-despite an untidy outer life that included epilepsy, compulsive gambling and enough hardships to stun Job. But few teachers can recognize creativity in children or tolerate it when they do. The child who paints pretty pictures or whizzes through the IQ test is called "gifted." The one who plants an ingenious stink bomb in the teachers' smoking room is a case for the cops...
...Northwestern (5-1)-used Quarterback Dick Thornton's passing (122 yds.) and running (73 yds.) to stun Ohio State...
...judo trick learned in the commandos: a slashing blow with the edge of his hand against Watters' larynx. Why, then, had he called in his brother to help fake a suicide? Sudden panic at finding his assailant dead, said Sergeant Emmett-Dunne. "I was only going to stun him." For nine days, while banner headlines in the London press blared forth the details of the latest crime of passion (20 British and ten German reporters covered the proceedings), the seven-man army court considered Emmett-Dunne's story...
...pictures relate to no particular school or fashion, carry no message. They are not meant to stun, dazzle, or instruct the viewer, but simply to be enjoyed. Gerassi clearly enjoyed painting each one. They have the brightness, boldness and paradoxical vagueness that six-year-olds generally bring to painting, but behind the pictures' ebullience lies a highly sophisticated intelligence. Gerassi's Magic Mountains (right) is done with rockbottom economy of means: a few horizontal stripes, one with a sawtooth edge. To those who demand recognizable details, it may seem little more than a close-up of a rusty...