Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate prop, however, is Linus's blanket. Under Doug Eichman's affectionate fondling, the woolly soul-mate changes from a cavalier's cape, to a savage's spear, to a dance partner for the number "My Blanket and Me". Despite whatever Lucy might say, he's no "baby brother with a baby blanket," and preposterously picks apart his own psyche and that of others in Papa Bettelheim's best manner...
...girl now whimpering in the ladies room. She talks about this, and about her relationship with the girl, but she gradually slips into the past and future. While she talks, she plays her favorite song on the jukebox, over and over; it serves as a background, an aural prop for the kind of good-time life she would like to think she's leading. She, like most of the "regulars" who show up that night, is a drifter whose fever to move on turns her into a garrulous, unattractive mama, every time she stops her trailer, her loneliness drives...
Hakim spoke quietly, punctuating his words with whichever hand he was not using to prop up his head. Finally, he stopped talking and leaned back against the pillows piled at the head of his bed. The woman bent further forward, kissed him on the cheek and then walked over to the jail ward's wire-mesh door. As a red headed state policeman negotiated the lock, the young woman looked back at the bed where Malik Hakim, torn tendons in both his legs, lay. Hakim touched his dark, long-fingered hands together, and inclined his head towards them...
Rapidly spreading Government housing subsidies are another equally controversial prop for the housing market. For example, Section 235 of the 1968 Housing Act enables "lowincome" families* to have the Government pay all but 1% of their interest on a 30-year housing loan of up to $24,000. In fiscal 1970, the Government's four principal subsidy programs totaled $523 million. This year such subsidies will finance an estimated 30% of all housing starts at a cost of $1.4 billion, and by 1978, the annual figure could rise to $7.5 billion, according to Housing and Urban Development Secretary George...
Perhaps expectedly, the primary villain in the tragedy is the American state. Under the guise of preventing 'Communist bloc' expansion, American imperialism uses military aid to prop up totalitarian regimes around the globe. That the client regimes remain subservient to U.S. hegemony is the only condition that must be met before the aid is provided. This American weaponry is currently being used against the people of Bangla Desh...