Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covers quickly and they all just keep going, the momentum spins on. No time to stop until the lights dim and the act is over. Afterwards the performers scatter to the corners of the back room, and sit quietly with their various plaints. Senelick comes in talking to the prop girl. He stops to console it worried P??grim. After a minute he disengages, turns to the group, and adjusts his spectacles...
...some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines counts only four jets and 13 prop planes in its passenger fleet, but it has more than its share of panache. Since 1967, stewardesses have worn Gay Nineties costumes, and pilots have been required to sing some flight announcements to the tune of Calamity Jane. All that has changed. Now the "Golden Nugget" flights have become the "Golden Samovar." Stewardesses in boots and Cossack minitunics serve borsch, beef stroganoff and "Bolshoi Golden Troikas" (coffee, vodka and coffee liqueur) from gilded samovars...
...Voyce admits that there are still a few kinks in his craft-the "really shoddy" mufflers, a laminated-wood prop that deteriorates rapidly in damp climates, a carburetor that gums up in salt water, and the vehicle's tendency to eject its driver over the bow when it is stopped quickly in water. But he expects to have the troubles ironed out in time to manufacture 10,000 Spectras in 1970 and claims already to have orders for 8,000. "People literally get freaked out by the Spectra," he says, and prophesies that one day "the Hovercraft will...