Word: prop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect, less may become more for farmers. Last December the Administration proposed a novel corrective: a self-imposed grain drain called payment in kind (PIK) that rewards farmers in Government-owned grain for idling large tracts of productive land. The program, hastily cobbled together to prop up the flagging farm economy, has prompted a response that was, said Agriculture Secretary John Block, "beyond my wildest expectations." Figures announced last week show that farmers will remove 82.3 million acres of wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, barley, oats and rice land from production in 1983. This amounts to roughly one-third...
With the Hollywood recycling mill humming at full capacity, actresses combing through the bios of studio film stars for a juicy part are as thick as autumn leaves-and some even thicker. And so with her Wonder Woman tights permanently stored away in some back-lot prop warehouse, Television Actress Lynda Carter dons a red wig and sucks in her tummy for Rita Hayworth, the Love Goddess, an upcoming two-hour CBS television movie. Carter learned how to dance and watched some of Rita's old films to strive for what she calls "the essence" of her character-goodness...
...Finn. Sentimental Godfrey choked up while narrating President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral for CBS Radio and shed tears on TV while listening to a women's quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. He shocked (and delighted) housewives by using a toy outhouse as a comic prop. Performing a chicken noodle soup commercial for one of his TV sponsors, Lipton's, Godfrey made a cup, spooned through it, and said, "I see lots of noodles. I do not see any chicken." Then he tasted the soup and added, "Yes, that is chicken. It might have walked...
...solucion, then, has to incorporate the Left. Even seen through Washington's bipolar lenses, such a prescription has a certain appeal of necessity. Our own intelligence tells us that the guerrillas are slowly defeating the Salvadoran military. The choice for U.S. policy makers is clear: either continue to prop up the present government and die a drawn out. Vietnam-like death, or press for real negotiations and come away with a compromise in the form of a coalition government...
...forces from Kampuchea, and the removal of all nuclear weapons from vessels and bases in the Indian Ocean. Said Malaysian Prune Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed: "The Soviet Union claims to champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed, but it had no hesitation about marching into Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime." Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro railed against "criminal Yankee imperialism" and new CIA plots to assassinate him, while Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong attacked China for its collusion with the U.S. in a "policy of hostility" toward China's neighbors. China...