Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opponent was Mosaburo Suzuki, onetime ricksha boy who has become leader of the Diet's left-wing Socialists. The vote for Ichiro Hatoyama: 254-160. Climbing into his wheelchair, Hatoyama rolled around the chamber on a triumphal tour, brandishing a glass of beer (strictly a photographer's prop, since Hatoyama, on doctor's orders, takes nothing alcoholic...
...barely adequate house. What it lacks in convenience it must make up with backstage savvy, proudly displayed by a crew of 152 electricians, carpenters ("grips"), prop men, et al. Best place from which to watch them at work is 44 feet above the stage, in the gloom of a narrow fly gallery. There, about lunchtime, Electrician Charlie Suhren started setting the lights for the first scene. As soon as his job was done, Charlie retired to a remote eyrie high in the cathedral vault of the stage, where he played solitaire until it was time to reset the lights...
...counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie beholds a vision come true, all the neighbors "down on their knees before...
...asputter lately with small wars, 47 jet fighters mean overwhelming military strength. Four Thunderbolts in the Guatemalan revolution last year, and two Mustangs in the Costa Rican invasion this year, were enough to drive their enemies out of the air; jets would be even more efficient against the best prop jobs...
...Prop & Counterweight. Until a little more than a year ago, business had no effective voice in Perón's councils of state. Perón came to power as the business-baiting leader of Argentina's workers, and he made the General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) the main prop of his regime. In labor-management disputes. Perón's government and courts almost always sided with the C.G.T...