Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ball. Born in 1893, he joined the Bolsheviks at the age of 14, became a Futurist poet, and then the brightest star in the Soviet poetic firmament for a decade or so after 1917. He evidently had mixed feelings about this. "I'm fed to the teeth with agit-prop," he remarked in a poem published about three weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest poet of the Soviet era. Mayakovsky doesn...
...during the week, came less than two weeks before the congressionally imposed Aug. 15 cut-off of all American military activity in Indochina takes effect-giving the impression that the U.S. was desperate to get in as much bombing as possible in the remaining days. In an attempt to prop up the faltering Lon Nol regime, B-52 flights over Cambodia have increased from 40 daily sorties to 49. Supplies such as T-28 propeller-driven fighter planes, ammunition, cargo planes, howitzers and armored personnel carriers are being rushed to Lon Nol's army...
...increased working quotas by 10%-and touched off a rebellion. East Berlin's workers took to the streets for two days, shouting "Death to Ulbricht!" Only the intervention of Soviet tanks saved him. From that time on, the presence of at least 20 Russian divisions became a crucial prop of his regime...
...seven members of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities are the permanent panelists of the country's most engrossing daytime show. But Chief Counsel Samuel Dash, Minority Counsel Fred Thompson and the unseen staff members working for them off-camera are the producers, directors, stage managers and prop men without whom the spectacle would...
...strong enough--the same fault she showed here a decade ago when trying the not unsimilar part of Goneril in King Lear. In talking of the murder plot, when Macbeth asks, "If we should fail?," her reply--"We fail?"--lacks the foreceful scorn, the reassuring incredulity needed to prop his weakening resolve. A sensual Lady Macbeth is perfectly valid, but the role requires a decided steak of masculinity, such as captured so imposingly in the portrayals of Dame Judith Anderson, Mrs. Tore Segelcke, and Siobhan McKenna...