Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday for the first time since the beginning of the term According to Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, the number of people dining at the Union may have fallen off sufficiently to permit quick checking. "Besides," Durant added, "We heard that too many of the neighboring prop school students are getting free meals...
...impression left with the reader is of an ultimate canceling out of whatever Koestler sets up, either as argument or character prop. Viewing the weak fictional fagade, neutral readers as well as pro-and anti-Zionists are apt to find themselves wishing that the job had been done as straight journalism...
...Carpenters, painters, prop & set builders, as opposed to production employes: cameramen, stage hands, lamp...
...prop is the army, abetted by five kinds of security police. Traditionally conservative and monarchist, the army has been preened and pampered by the Generalissimo. Seven hundred thousand strong, it is the biggest in continental western Europe. With officers who have impatiently pressed for a monarchical restoration, the Generalissimo has played a cagey game. He, too, is pledged to bring back a king. But by judicious transfers of outstanding monarchists like General Alfredo Kindelan (first to the Canaries, then to house confinement in Madrid) and on his record in keeping the army out of World War II's losing...
Spain's totalitarian party, the Falange, of which Franco is Caudillo (leader), is another prop. After seven years, it has a strong influence over Spanish youth and a stranglehold on the nation's totally regimented, venally exploited economy. The Falange's mass base is weak (5% to 10% of the population), but most big landowners and businessmen, who live in dread of a mass uprising, give it their allegiance...