Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tricks that man builds into his airplanes-and a few more besides. A bird's "propellers," explains Storer, are the big feathers at the ends of its wings. They are perfect airfoils with thick leading edges and thin trailing edges. When the bird flaps its wings downward, the "prop feathers" separate, twist to assume the proper "angle of attack," and act like propeller blades. They generate a forward force that pulls the wing forward, and the bird with...
...began to go wrong. On the flight engineer's board, instrument needles flickered away from their reassuring positions. An outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets, tightened their-safety belts...
...Franco seemed to be more firmly in the saddle than ever. Organized opposition had been largely obliterated. The most obvious, evidences that Spain is not a free country are the absence of criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...
...Newman Prop...
...Prop men of the Harvard Theater Workshop produced halberds and horses on short notice in the past, but the current production of Troilus and Cressida, slated for the boards on December 8, they have run into a stone wall...