Word: stunts
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...Stunts & Speed. He had no flashy crowd-catching tricks. Terry once tried to sell him on the stunt idea. "But what shall I do?" asked Ott. "Anything," said Terry, "do anything. Get drunk . . . disappear ... lie down and roll over when you catch a ball . . . slide home when you hit one out of the park." Replied Ott: "Aw, gee, Bill. I couldn't do that. I'd look silly...
...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...