Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Squash (5-1)--After losing its opener to Andover, 5-2, the team has recorded five victories, three of them shutouts. Tomorrow, however, it faces Doorfield Academy, perhaps the strongest of the prop school teams. Strength at the lower positions has improved the team's chances of victory in this contest as well as in a return match against Andover later this month...
Teaching fellows unquestionably deserve a better deal from the University and probably need an outside prop to obtain it in the form of more pay for less work, for the Corporation has an over riding bargaining advantage as the greater of degrees. The gracious and insulting argumentum ad bominom which is contained in the report of the Overseers' Committee and the undesirability of the "senior Faculty person" whom the Committee seeks to set over them, decract from the attractiveness of its later recommendations...
Price supports prop up the farmer and tax write-offs cushion the new businessman. Property owners are reimbursed for wartime losses sustained at the hands of either the Nazis or the Allies, and there are special payments for war widows as well as to refugees from East Germany. "If you were a nursing mother who had fled from the East, lost your fortune and your husband in the war, and had broken your leg," says one government official, "why, you'd be a millionaire...
...roll a few legal dice? Grand Bahama Island, a mere 75 miles off Miami, has been granted a ten-year license for a gambling casino, and now Huntington Hartford, 52, wants similar licenses granted to the rest of the Bahamas, including one small dot named Paradise Island (H. Hartford prop.) just off Nassau. It would solve a lot of problems, he says. First he would immediately build 1,000 first-class hotel rooms on Paradise, thus providing jobs for unemployed Bahamians. Then he would give 50% of the net gambling profit to the government for "improved housing, medical care...
Regardless of which company comes out ahead, the Dutch are bound to gain. Some of the gas will be used to fuel new aluminum and ammonia industries in The Netherlands, and about 15 billion cubic meters will be exported yearly to prop a narrowly unfavorable balance of trade. Gas will also replace the country's meager supply of coal as consumer fuel. As a result of the finds, gas prices for Dutch householders are to be lowered 25% next month...