Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...altitude of La Paz (pop. 350,000) is 11,900 ft., visitors are warned to get used to the thin air before taking a cocktail or attempting anything so athletic as trotting upstairs. At the airport, 1,400 ft. above the city, no jets come in; Panagra's prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest...
...scrum's front row Phil Hitch will fill in the slot as hooker and at left prop will be sophomore Bill Bunting playing his third game of the season. Rick Swanson, periodically in and out of the first team, will play right prop. Ed Quattiebaum returns to the second row Saturday after as ankle injury. Freshman Bill Marsluff at scrumhalf will be an asset for several years and should certainly play first string next fall...
Former track star Frank Yeomans will be a Boston break away threat in the three quarter line, and Lyle Michely will be in the scrum. Michael Stepanion, formerly of the San Francisco Olympic Rugby Club, will be a terror as prop in the scrum...
Kennedy, with his $20 billion Alliance for Progress, had come into office with glowing plans for building stable democracy in Latin America. Yet in the past three years, most U.S. attempts to prop up weak governments have fallen flat. And there are well-founded fears that the worst is not over. All week long, the State Department chewed its nails over military muttering in Colombia, troubled by a weak President and backlands violence; in Venezuela, rocked by increasing Castroite terrorism, and in Brazil, where perpetual chaos brought the country to the point of martial...
Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little...