Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food didn't suit him, Vasily would hurl it on the floor, stamp out, and roar away in his plane to stunt off his anger. He drank brandy and vodka in gulping draughts from breakfast until bedtime. The base soccer team, the Stalin Commandos, either in victory rode the dizzying crest of his pleasure or in defeat the depths of his displeasure...
Bright & early on the Fourth of July, the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times began a journalistic stunt calculated to prove that Red-baiting and loyalty investigations have cowed the American public. A reporter set out with a petition composed of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights-addressed to no one in particular-and began trying to get picnickers and strollers to sign it. By dusk, after approaching 112 people, he had only one signer...
...stunt made a fine headline in the determinedly liberal Capital Times. But that was not the end of it. A fortnight ago in Detroit, President Harry Truman stretched the Madison incident to make his own point: "The doubters and defeatists . . . are trying to stir up trouble and suspicion between the people and their Government," he said. "This malicious propaganda has gone so far that on the Fourth of July . . . people were afraid to say they believed in the Declaration of Independence...
Twenty-five minutes later, after the treasure had been found on Snell Isle, Timesmen began to tot up the results of their promotion stunt: six people were injured in auto accidents; several women fainted in the mob scene at the Times building; one woman, pacing off the clue in the dark, walked out into Boca Ciega Bay and had to be pulled out; four people had to be dragged out of waist-deep mud; the crowd ripped up stakes on a building site, which will now have to be resurveyed. But the Times seemed to think it was all worth...
This kind of advice was being given to frequent callers last week by the Oregon Journal's cooking expert, Mary Cullen. Horsemeat, hitherto eaten as a stunt or only as a last resort, was becoming an important item on Portland tables. Now there were three times as many horse butchers, selling three times as much meat. In the Portland markets, horse sirloins are 35? a pound, while beef is $1.14; horse tenderloins 45?, compared to $1.95-$2.15 for beef. People who used to pretend that it was for the dog now came right out and said it was going...