Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unspecified conflicts with the project's managers. "I was frustrated by the lack of progress," said biologist Thomas Lovejoy, the panel's chairman. The Biospherians will soldier on, but their two-year experiment in self- sufficiency is starting to look less like science and more like a $150 million stunt...
...horn was no more a stunt than all his roguish jokiness though. The music flowed from a kind of high spirit, a purposeful passion that the horn symbolized and the silliness deflected. There was nothing slight or offhand about the way he played, or how he lived. Born in South Carolina in 1917, he began to teach himself trombone and trumpet two years after his father -- a bricklayer by trade and a weekend bandleader by calling -- had passed on; before he left his teens he was playing professionally with the Frankie Fairfax band and had got himself his nickname...
...more aggressive Rullman looked for his shot more often against Penn, but sophomore Eric Moore performed a Human Velcro stunt and the Winthrop senior didn't score until he canned a three 9:06 into the game--the first trey of the weekend for the second-best three-point bomber in Harvard history...
...told to purchase chicken fingers wearing a ski mask and deliver them to the Fox Club," Johnson said. "It was a stunt he should not have participated...
Harvard Police chased the student to Eliot House D Entry. The student, who had removed the ski mask but was panting heavily, apologized to police, explaining that the stunt was "just a prank...