Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paid to Arthur Radford further symbolizes a new military appreciation in this new military age for the quiet man in the big picture who sits and thinks and thereby saves lives and deters wars. Once Arthur Radford was one of the hottest pilots in the Navy, leading an aerial stunt team called the High. Hatters, even standing in as stuntman for Clark Gable in the epic Hell Divers. But one of his wingmen of those days now prefers to dwell upon the solid and undramatic way that Radford led his men on the routine patrols. "Raddy had it even then...
...with its new models, is urging its 9,000 dealers to buy or lease new Chevrolets and Fords, display them alongside their Plymouths. Bouncing back from 80% dip in profits last year, company is spending more than $1,000,000 to push its "Compare All Three" stunt...
...selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this miraculous stunt. The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance...
...fourth man, Greg Stone '58, staged a stunt with Charlie Batterman, M.I.T. diving coach. The varsity diver made his entrance during a Hungarian diving exhibition. Suddenly, as a diver poised to execute a "three summersault half twister," the sport coat-clad clown pushed his way through the audience onto the pool deck. "You're too small to do such dives. Let me try!" protested Stone. He did. Sportcoat, tie, Stone and all plumeted into the water
Scout, Squint, Study. Handsome Halfback Gifford was accustomed to such motion-picture heroics, being, in the first place, an occasional motion-picture bit-player and stunt man (Saturday's Hero, The All-American, etc.). He rehearsed for last week's game just as if for a movie. All week long Gifford and his teammates studied movies of the Eagles in action to learn their weaknesses and strengths...