Word: prop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have since World War Two, the two superpowers led the way since last June in the oppressive intervention department. Washington continued its frantic efforts to prop up an illusory domino in El Salvador, ignoring past lessons that war torn nations need peace and non-interference, not American guns. Moscow still has 100,000 heavily armed campers bunking down in Kabul...
...parts. He discovers a homosexual tryst in a packing crate, loses his grip when a chicken called Modine pecks its understudy to death and is replaced by Cluck Gable, and suffers a painful disorientation when he stands in for Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead of staying in character, King mutters into the instrument, "Gonna drank me a batch of that ol' Cutty Sark tonight...
...hours. It then can be partly disassembled to be carried on a cartop to the takeoff point. The Weedhopper has a rudder and elevator controlled by a stick; there are no pedals. A floating-disc speed indicator is the only gauge. Takeoff consists of cranking the 3½-ft. prop, revving the motor and pulling back on the stick. The aircraft can take off in as little as 30 ft. and land on a sandbar, a back lot, even a boat...
...Harvard investment policy. It was President Bok's first full year in office and student protest was growing over investments. In April, two dozen Black students took over Massachusetts Hall for a week, demanding the Harvard divest from Gulf, which they said was using its wealth and influence to prop up the colonial government in Angola...
...last month's Prop 2 1/2 override failed. Cambridge would have been forced to make massive employee layoffs and service cuts. A preliminary budget prepared by the city manager in March predicated layoffs of 55 police. 54 fire fighters, and 133 public works employees, as well as the closing of all ten neighborhood health centers...