Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd Jordan didn't seem to mind the great Yale stunt in Saturday's game--when manager Charlie Yaeger caught Molloy's conversion pass--or at least not in print. His comment was "That sort of thing makes football...
...writer of the letter complained: "With Town and Gown relations as strained as they are, it shows a complete lack of consideration and common sense to pull the stunt...
Bucher's dive was not made solely as a stunt. It called attention to the efforts of a small group of fans in one of the world's hardiest sports: underwater game fishing. Backed in part by Italy's National Council of Scientific Research (and also by the Italian Olympic Committee), Bucher and a group of nine others are now planning the "first underwater big game hunt in history...
...abiding Don Kellerman made a proposal that surprised his wife as much as it did his managing editor. Kellerman wanted to get arrested so that he could write a series on "what happens to a youngster in his first clash with the law." This is an old journalistic stunt, but Kellerman had a new twist. Instead of going to jail with the connivance of police, the usual method used by reporters, Kellerman proposed to say nothing to the police, get himself arrested while seemingly committing a serious crime. "And that," he conceded, "made it dangerous." Last week, after seven weeks...
They reserved their biggest stunt for 1939, when the Indian undergraduates demanded lodging in Stoughton Hall. The visitors certified their claim with a crusty but trusty document that proclaimed: "Whereas the President and Fellows of ye Colledge have proposed...that ye Indian Collegge wich is gone to decay May be Removed & Used for an additional Building to Harvard College, we do Hereby signifye to ye Corporation our Consent to their Proposall; Provided that in Case any Indians should...be sent to ye Colledge, they should enjoy their studies rent free in said building...