Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the Nationalists evacuated six-square-mile Nanchi Island, 90 miles south of the fallen Tachens-first taking off 2,000 civilians, then the garrison of some 5,000 troops. The Nanchi withdrawal was a purely Nationalist operation. Chiang's aging P-47s and PBYs (World War II prop planes), aided by Nationalist F-84 and F-86 jets, covered the move. U.S. air-sea rescue teams stood by in case of trouble, but did not take part...
...freshmen face even a rougher fee at Williston Academy, where they meet the holders of three national prop school records, also...
...parity for 1955. U.S. rice growers have voted by a surprising 9-to-l margin to accept stiff federal controls which will cut back crops 25% from last year's 1,859,000 acres. With the vote, farmers who stay within the controls now expect to get a prop of about $4.90 per 100 Ibs. instead of the $2.75 guarantee (50% of parity) they would get had growers voted down the tight quotas...
...state." The Communist tactics are many-sided, but their theme is consistent and throbbing: "Five acres per peasant . . . We will give you land!" From Gandhi to Dandies. Less than three weeks before the Andhra election, the 25 top leaders of Nehru's Congress Party gathered in nearby Madras, prop ping themselves up against cushions on a great white mattress. The Congressmen's names were big names of the Gandhi days: Govind Ballabh Pant, Abul Kalam Azad, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third...
...recital for those who want blues and ballads straight, Libby accepts the challenge of the far more precarious one-woman show. And she hasn't the expert showmanship; she just isn't actress or sorceress enough. She manipulates herself, and the kitchen chair that is her only prop, in all sorts of bold, mannered, ingenious ways; but they call too much attention to themselves, or seem too cute, or wear thin too soon, or don't really blend with her songs. It is her voice that is true theater, not these stage tricks; and when she sings...