Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peace brought only boredom to the Mad Major's sort, and as he aged, he drifted to bit playing on the London stage, stunt flying in an aerial circus. He even peddled hacksaw blades at an Ideal Homes Exhibition...
When Morse reappeared, minus the rose but still wearing the same blue suit, reporters knotted around with questions. Had he made any special preparations for his stunt? None at all, except to get seven hours' sleep the night before instead of his usual four or five. "I always keep in good shape," he explained. How was he able to resist the call to the men's room? Good control, he said, vowing that he had had no auxiliary devices strapped to his leg. What was the purpose of his marathon talk? He was one of "a band...
...walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some stunt candidacies (Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Bicyclist Alfredo Binda) and some frivolous parties (The Movement for Divorce, The Party of the Beefsteak), but basically the campaign would be a deadly political fight between the democratic center and the two anti-democratic extremes in Italian politics...
Comment around the University was varied. Some thought it a "great gag." Other refused to believe the stunt had actually happened...
...Beer does not let the problems of academic success stunt his vigorous activity in other directions. Now working on a comparison of British political parties, he has just finished a long introduction to a book by Karl Manheim on political sociology...