Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frantically coiled himself up, the spinning tire struck him, laying bare one of his shoulder blades. Bleeding, scorched by flame and chilled by the prop wash, Bas Wie mercifully lost consciousness. For three hours his body stayed so firmly wedged within the struts that it did not fall out even when the big wheel went down again. When the crew found him "just hanging there," Bas Wie seemed close to death...
...eight dance well by themselves, but they have not yet achieved the precision of ensemble that marks the best troupes. Eglevsky and Slavenska are both first-rank artists; but, in both of their duos, drawn from Tschaikovsky, they proved disappointing: Eglevsky had nothing to do except act as a prop for the ballerina...
...people in deede and thoughte are sette full fowle in synne!" (God, unfortunately visible behind the organ, was a large fat man in a blue lounge suit.) While Noah and his sons built an ark (it was carried onstage by an assortment of blue-smocked prop men), Mrs. Noah stood aside and jeered (moaned Noah: "Lord that wemen be crabbed ay!"). The "animals"-a chorus of 70 children-marched two by two into the ark caroling "Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie eleison," and the orchestra launched with a crash into cymbal-punctuated storm music that reached its climax in a beautifully descanted...
...badly off. It has only a little more than 3,000,000 bags in storage, and most of this is the result of an agreement reached last year between Latin America's seven biggest producers to hold some coffee off the market in an effort to prop prices. Just the same, Colombia's exporters are grumbling that holding back only encourages rival African producers to enlarge their share, now about 20%, of the world market. Pegged prices, they insist, allow African producers to undersell them...
...evening this week Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel will scoot out to New York City's Idlewild Airport, warble through her Show before TV cameras in the terminal, then wave a heartfelt farewell to her viewers as they watch her fly off for Europe. In her prop wash she will leave the U.S. to make the best of TV's summer season, including her own program's hot-weather replacement, ABC-TV's Frigidaire Summer Theater...