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Word: stunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swim team was not content to perform its feat just once. On Friday it repeated the stunt at the Princeton pool. "It was really funny because they have a big window where you can look down at the pool and see the people practicing," Covello said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...many months Falwell foes, aware that each phone-in costs $1, have purposely clogged his lines. First an Atlantan who objects to TV ministers programmed his computer to dial Falwell every 30 seconds. Before Southern Bell stepped in, the stunt cost Falwell $750,000. Then it was homosexual periodicals egging on readers to act against Falwell, an enemy of gay liberation. Late last year the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ran a column advocating "telephone terrorism" and listed the 800 numbers of several targets, including Falwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toll-Free Woes: Clogging Jerry's phones | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...orgy tradition started in the 1940s when anecstatic student, who had just finished his lastexam, went to the station and played all nine ofBeethoven's Symphonies consecutively--a feat thatmust have taken at least 12 hours. The stunt metwith so much enthusiasm that WHRB has continuedtradition of extended music play ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Begins Orgy Season | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...Yeah, I heard they stunt your growth...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: On the White House Beat | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...ever growing federal budget deficit. Last week the Administration reported that the deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 will hit a record $220.7 billion, which is some $8 billion above last year's level. Efforts to reduce the deficit next year by curbing federal spending could stunt economic growth in the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy on the Move Again | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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