Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to get approval (Lord Ismay admits that he was dubious), but Winston Churchill was for it. When someone objected that the stunt might misfire and only call attention to the impending invasion of Sicily, Churchill replied, "I don't see that that matters. Anybody but a damn fool would know it is Sicily...
...near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second, then caps the stunt by getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac and driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They Did It," two U.S. military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow the earth to bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers...
Modern Living. In Vienna, after touring Europe for a year inside a big glass bottle, Stunt Man Rudolf Schmied climbed out, told reporters that he had lost 60 lbs., but "there is little difference between life inside and outside the bottle...
...Weeks calls "just a readjustment" in the economy will by this time find four million persons unemployed and farm income off ten percent from December 1953. A man will jump out of a window on Wall St., causing nation-wide panic until it is learned that he was a stunt man for a documentary film about the twenties...
...Chicago Tribune, whose daily circulation has slipped about 20% in the last seven years from 1,076,045 in 1946 to 885,840 this year, decided to try an old circulation stunt to boost its sales. The plan was to give away free dolls for every three new subscriptions to the paper. But the circulation men reckoned without the Trib's aging (73) Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, who huffily frowned on the idea as undignified for the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The circulation men gently persisted, suggested that the dolls were really quite handsome, and urged the Colonel...