Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy winds forced both teams to rely mostly on kicking, and neither three-quarter line was able to sustain a passing movement. But Harvard, with brilliant performances from scrum half Andy Schafer and freshman prop Paul Budden-hagen, dominated the play for most of the afternoon...
...example, would safely cross 45 miles of current in the Straits of Mackinac with improved pipe, and pipe has been laid 170 ft. deep in the Gulf of Mexico. By developing underground storage vaults, gas companies have also been able to keep up with heavy winter demand and prop up summer prices. In the marshy New Jersey meadows, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. is freezing thousands of yards of mud, scooping a hole out of the middle and filling it with gas chilled to -258° F. to liquefy...
...Etait Formidable. Confident that he would be dealing "not with imbecilic bandits but with sensible men who would reflect before acting," Lavalette and his raiders carried no weapons except their prop shotguns. Living up to these expectations, Cesari offered no resistance and, as Lavalette remembered the dialogue, declared solemnly: "Monsieur, permit me to offer you my hand so that I may congratulate you and your men on your job. C'était formidable.'" Replied Lavalette: "Man cher, I accept your congratulations, and I extend you my own. Thanks to you, I have accomplished the most beautiful affair that...
...clear just how seriously or lightly one should take a line such as Jairus's: "In these distressing moments-so distressing that in one's heart of hearts one becomes sublime because of them-one would like to find soaring sentences, well-turned phrases, with an eternal meaning, that prop up the spirits." In a Mystery like Miss Jairus, such a line strikes me as more an ironic comment than a Gilbert-and-Sullivan sally; it is over such lines that I would take issue with the performance at Tufts University...
...with a "revered emblem"-a gold-knobbed flagstaff representing their Battalion 2506. It was flagless, they bitterly explained, because their battalion flag had been presented to John F. Kennedy, who had promised that it would be returned "in a free Havana." The emblem was now on tour as a prop in the fund-raising effort for the Kennedy Memorial Library...