Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was not much he could do about it. The Bureau is a subcontractor for the Postmaster General, and thanks to the stamp-happy 80th Congress (which invented the stunt of "directing" commemoratives instead of merely "authorizing" them, sponsored more stamps than any other Congress in history), the Postmaster General has become a kind of subcontractor for the legislators...
...point at all to politicians going through the ritual of campaigning, it was simply to whip up the enthusiasm of local professionals, charged with rounding up the vote. There was no point at all, he asserted, to political pulse-taking after the campaign had started. "It has become a stunt. Like tearing a telephone directory in two, it impresses without instructing...
...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...
This Hitchcock stunt also required of the actors a sustained discipline that is fairly new to the screen. The result is quite exciting. Continuous action builds a tension all its own. The players, too, are keyed unusually high by the intensity and interest of trying something new, so that, although their performances are elementary, they have a vividness and vitality which are rare in current movies...
...Bryant's bosses saw his stunt. Caught, Bryant apologized, poured back the fluid, worth only about half a cent. Nevertheless, his employers gave him his week's pay (about $20) and fired...