Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days last week, it looked as if Cambodia might become another South Viet Nam. Communist insurgent forces, armed and led by the North Vietnamese, were besieging the Cambodian capital, Phnom-Penh. U.S. B-52s bombed through the night around Phnom-Penh, hoping to hold off the enemy and prop up the shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder...
Economists have long been pressing for such a move. The federal hoards were established originally to ensure adequate supplies of strategic materials in wartime. They have since turned into a kind of price prop; Government stockpile purchases have tended to keep commodity prices from falling. The reserves now comprise not only 15 strategic metals such as aluminum and tin but dozens of anything-but-strategic materials, including even 1,500 tons of feathers. Stockpiling policy in general "is a national joke," says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and former adviser to Lyndon Johnson...
...Alka-Seltzer. This may be the reason why every candy bar, every can of beer or other easily identifiable product is conscientiously wrapped in brown paper or covered with a phoney label. Zieff must have worried that any time one of the sup porting cast picked up a prop, Slither might look like a commercial...
...moved irresistably into Vietnam, he also saw the high quality officers left over from World War II retire, replaced by lesser men that had brought up the rear. Television made Vietnam the living room war, and Westmoreland and Abrams became the prop and make-up men. With a unique perspective on the Army's ills, Herbert was still sure they could be cured from within, simply by going by the book. For three tours in Indochina, he did exactly that...
...when on April 15, 1970, Harvard Square erupted into a mad scene of police, tear gas, snarling dogs, broken windows and street fighting, we thought, "What in the hell is going on?" and wondered if the revolution we kept hearing about was more than a rhetorical prop. One senior I knew, who had been waiting a long time for that day, was in the Health Services with the flu. As he watched the police forays down Mt. Auburn Street, he begged the nurses to let him out. Instead, he ended up on the phone to The Crimson filing riot reports...