Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tongues and dispense the Indian tongue in the College." The trouble was that few aborigines cared to obtain knowledge or to dispense it. Those that did try to enter Harvard, about twenty in all, came hopelessly unready for higher education and had to be prepared for entrance in local prop school's at Harvard's expense...
...practicing take-offs and landings at Bankstown airport, stalled the engine of his light Auster plane a few feet from the ground, but made the landing safely, brakes on-he thought. Deciding to start his engine unaided, he advanced the throttle, jumped out of the cockpit and swung the prop. To his surprise, as the engine started, the plane began to move. Thrower grabbed a wing strut, but was unable to hold the plane; it roared downfield, took off and began circling the airport at a height of 15 ft. Twice the plane buzzed the control tower, then, gaining altitude...
...wonder if you realize what kind of "Commie prop" you are publishing? The Vanishing Island, which was seen by 75,000 in Pakistan alone and has created a sensation as it has toured the countries of Asia, has received unfair treatment at your hands...
...Never in history has any country contained such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins. Never, but never, do they drop cigar ashes in the icebox, prop their feet on a coffee table, leave an unwashed dish in the sink . . . They endure their married lives in mute docility, and die mercifully early in life from ulcers and high blood pressure...
During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force auxiliary sparked Canada's 200,000-man air buildup; its pilots trained and led combat squadrons overseas. But today its 5,000 part-time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...