Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...session, and the remaining satellite satraps would probably follow along. Khrushchev proposed that other chiefs of government should head their U.N. delegations and work toward a disarmament agreement. Recalling the Soviet practice of timing rocket feats for propaganda purposes, the West braced itself for some Soviet space stunt on or about Sept. 20-perhaps rocketing a man aloft in a space capsule and bringing him back alive...
...Cuban resolution written in Costa Rica by OAS diplomats, because it did not specify Cuba by name. Instead he chose to strike his favorite defiant, heroic pose and staged a whirlwind week of speeches, each more frenzied and more sinister than the last. The climax was a massive demagogic stunt: an invitation to all Cubans (who have no representative government) to take part in a "People's Assembly" in Havana's Civic Plaza, where, in the style of the French revolutionary terror, they could roar approval of proposed new measures...
...they can reasonably guarantee his safe return to earth. But when problems of thrust, guidance, artificial environment, communications, reentry and recovery have been sufficiently solved to permit this assurance, the program already will have proved its point: that man can survive in a satellite. Thus, to many scientists, the stunt of actually putting a man in orbit then seems scarcely worth the effort, risk and financial burden...
Director Billy Wilder, fresh off the boat from Europe and without a bean in his pocket, picked up his first salary check in Hollywood by hiring out as a stunt man and jumping into a swimming pool in full fig. Since that day, he has splashed about so energetically in the cinema swim that now he is established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four...
...profit was to build houses cheaply on an assembly-line basis. A skilled inventor, he patented more than a dozen devices, including collapsible steel forms, that enabled him to put up entire houses in a few days. He once put one up in 34 minutes as a stunt...