Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper-man for the job. And just as Hammarskjold was preparing to dispatch a 15-man African and Asian conciliation commission...
...past five years, the U.S. has poured $300 million in military and economic aid into primitive, soporific Laos to prop up a succession of anti-Communist governments and to help fend off the skulking guerrillas of the Communist Pathet Lao. About all that remains of that policy and all those millions is anti-Communist General Phoumi Nosavan, who is nursing his pride in southern Laos after taking a shellacking from Kong Le's para troopers...
Starting center on coach Henry Lamar's eleven, Kessler was a Boston Herald All-Prop selection last year when he played at Andover. He was a letter winner in hockey, lacrosee, and football at the Academy...
Four of the attackers attempted to carry off a small Band member, but the husky prop crew intervened. One musician used a baritone sax with good results, and an ex-Marine in the Band's ranks reportedly gave the street brawlers a lesson in their craft...
...were plenty of reminders of the man himself. From his nephew's widow came three dolls, one suspended from a garter, that Homer used as models. There were his old watercolor brushes, a newly discovered sketch book, a rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time, his only companions. "That Duck Pond." To his friends, there was always something of a mystery about why he suddenly quit New York and withdrew to Maine. Some said it was because he wanted...