Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked so far away I got lonesome." Aircraft Mechanic Tom Pearson has improved on a standard Bensen design, added a four-bladed propeller, a muffler and ground brakes-an uncommon feature on home-built helicopters. Explains Pearson: "If you haven't got brakes, you have to spin the prop, then jump in the seat quick to keep the beast from running away...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [Woodfall; Continental). "I'm me and nobody else. Whatever people say I am. that's what I'm not. Because they don't know a bloody thing about me. I'm a six-foot prop that wants a pint o' beer, that's what." With this Teddy-boyish declaration of grog-on-ice independence, the "Saxon Revolt" that is currently burning up the grass roots of British literature breaks out with brawling and exhilarant abandon on the screen. Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his rumbustiously original first novel...
This time, with Paz determined to prop the collapsing economy, the most eloquent message from the distressed princess is likely to fall on tin presidential ears...
...Director Philippe de Broca. who never before made a movie on his own and now emerges as the biggest comic talent of the new school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...
SUBSONIC JET PLANE will be developed by the Air Force to transport troops and cargo anywhere in the world. The plane, for which Congress approved $50 million for design studies, will be designated the SOR-182 and replace the Military Air Transport Service's aging prop-driven...