Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here because Ford has ignored high unemployment, hunger and racism, and has supported pro-imperialist wars abroad to prop up a tottering economy," Bonnie Bishop, organizer of the November 7 Coalition, which sponsored the rally, said last night...
Later in the first half, Harvard wing Richie Sherman scored on a try for four points. Grad student Gary Bond connected on the conversion attempt to tie the core. Sherman's score was set up on a run by prop Jim Feldman...
...countenance continued white rule in South Africa in return for his country's aid and technology. With the collapse of Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique and Angola, Vorster realized that his cordon sanitaire of white-ruled states was disintegrating. He also realized that South Africa could hardly afford to prop up the Smith regime in the event of an all-out racial war in Rhodesia. Accordingly, he ordered the last of some 2,000 South African paramilitary police out of Rhodesia. He may also withdraw the South African-owned fleet of 50-odd Alouette helicopters that have played an important...
...Azores' strategic importance. Situated 1,000 miles west of Lisbon and 2,500 miles east of New York, the islands have been a way station for travelers since Portuguese navigators first discovered and began colonizing them around 1430. During World War II, they were the main stopover for prop planes going to and from Southern Europe, and the islands were nicknamed "the Grand Central Station of the Atlantic." Shortly after the war, the U.S. took over the old British base on Terceira Island, known as Lajes Field. Washington currently keeps 1,500 American military personnel there to keep tabs...
...time of the coup, some foreign observers were astonished that young officers had led the revolt, since the military was widely regarded as a key prop of the Salazar and Caetano regimes. In retrospect, there should have been no surprise. Many of those officers had come from poor families that could not afford to send them to the universities. For them, therefore, entering a military academy and receiving a regular officer's commission were the only means of obtaining an education and advancing in social status. Gradually, they saw their positions and careers threatened when in 1973 the government...