Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's new program should put a much needed prop under the housing market. Lewis Cenker, president of the National Association of Home Builders, called the moves "a realistic recognition of the disastrous effects that inflation and tight money are having on a major segment of the nation's economy." The program, however, is certain to keep upward pressure on nonhousing interest rates because, in order to get the cash to subsidize housing, the Government will have to step up its own borrowing in an already tight money market...
...franc down in order to gain a trade advantage over other countries. The Italian lira is in trouble as usual but even so, it has gained against the dollar since January-though only because the Bank of Italy has been spending as much as $100 million a day to prop up the lira's price...
...Crimson prop Rich Whiting primed Harvard's pump with four points when he fell on a blocked kick in Princeton's end zone...
...Prop Bill "Moon" Mullin, in the tourney's worst injury, was stretchered off the field into an ambulance after wrenching his neck and upper back in a scrum against Dartmouth...
...course this clod does not retain enough usable Latin to translate a tombstone, but he cannot admit it. What is excellent about the Nash translations, however, is not only that the English original is on the facing page (an indispensable prop to dignity) but that the poems are very short. This is a great advance over a famous similar confection of a few years back called Winnie IIle Pooh...