Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late last week the jetliner screeched airborne at McGuire for the trip home, was rated during its less-than-top-speed takeoff as noisy as most jets, far louder than prop and turboprop planes...
...becomes a playwright, Johnston said, "The only way to get your play read if you're a woman is to become secretary to the boss or prop girl at the theatre--in order to get to know the people who will eventually make decisions on scripts. On Friday say, 'I'll fix that for you over the weekend,' then come back with it done on Monday. The Big Boss thinks you're clever and you have a foot-hold on the ladder...
...elaborate weather-warning system so he would get the word as soon as a rare clear day began to dawn. For three months Bryson matched guesses with the Weather Bureau, peered disconsolately through smog, cruised 1,668 miles by car, flew uncounted thousands of miles more in prop planes, jets and helicopters (at times dangling out of the belly of the helicopter to get low aerial shots). In Southern California, he soon discovered, it is hard to find a camera angle that does not include a top-secret defense installation. "Every time I set up that long lens," he said...
Further, Claman said, artists, technical and publicity workers, prop, costume and general production staff will also be recruited. Although previous experience is desired, Claman noted, it should not be considered necessary...
...more than "a gigantic hoax on the Senate and the people." To a chamber dotted with only half a dozen members, Morse proclaimed in his best monotone: "This country does not need, and should not seek, perpetual dependents anywhere in the world . . . Aid in this pattern may help to prop up an irresponsible government which professes friendship for this country and natters the administrators of this program. Sooner or later, however, the people of this country will pay a terrible price for this unmitigated folly." Herman Talmadge settled for less erudition and more emotion. Warming up to the spellbinding oratory...