Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hook-a stunt, novelty, contest or other device intended to produce tangible evidence of audience attention...
Despite a last-minute change in plans, when a destroyer struck a mine and blocked the inshore channel to Lingkas Bay, the operation was a dinkum one. Admiral Royal switched to a hazardously narrow channel, brought the stunt off and landed his troops on time...
...printers the scripts of radio broadcasts, newspaper obituaries, selections from Roosevelt speeches, appropriate verse (including a made-to-radio-order poem by Carl Carmer and an old one by the late Stephen Vincent Benet), a hurriedly updated appraisal of Roosevelt by Historian Henry Steele Commager. As an enterprising stunt (print order: 300,000), Pocket Books' Memorial made publishing history...
...Stunt Boy. In The Bronx, Bill Ont-ville, 1 6, who wants to be a cinema stunt man when he grows up, announced that he had seen 705 movies in the past year...
...recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky; the vagaries of short wave kept the WTAG audience from hearing his "Dear listeners in Worcester . . .", but Moscow obligingly cabled the text...