Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must also bring an end to the present government of South Viet Nam. Either it must be sacrificed to a larger coalition government as part of the price of an accord with Hanoi, so the reasoning goes, or it is certain to collapse from its own infirmities once the prop of U.S. support and the urgency of waging a war is removed. That may or may not prove true. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu's elected government continues to go about the necessary business of trying to govern while the Communists threaten a new wave of attacks on cities...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many, many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. The cosmos is an intricate baseball game, or is it vice versa, in this entertaining allegory about an accountant who destroys himself when he relinquishes reality for illusion...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP, by Robert Coover. 242 pages. Random House...