Word: propped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain 10,000 ft." The trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine loose from its mount. Veteran Pilot Luis F. Plata, 39, had tried vainly to feather the prop, i.e., to still it by turning its blades into the air stream. With the engine dead, the prop was windmilling loosely...
...took a fly swatter to his son's well-padded bottom ("It don't hurt your hand and it don't mark the kid"). But Robin went right on playing. When he couldn't talk one of his three brothers into playing catch, he would prop an old mattress against the garage door and fire away for hours at a hole in the middle. All the while, the braying porch radio kept him up to date on Chicago Cubs ball games. "If people knew what I thought about pitching," says Roberts now, "they'd think...
Terence S. Turner '57, of Adams House and Bethesda, Maryland, has been elected President of the Rugby Club for next year. Turner, who played Prop Forward on this year's team, graduated from St. George's school in England. John Chalsty '57 and Alsatair Rellie '58 will be vice-president and Secretary for next year...
...Crimson will not quite be at full strength for the match, as scrum half Charles Levine sits out the game in a wheelchair and with a displaced cartilage, and prop forward Peter Curry nurses a pulled muscle...
Genetics was treated to the full fury of Communist polemics. It was denounced as "capitalist-reactionary" and as "the prop of the ideology of imperialism." To say a good word for a gene or a chromosome might cost a Soviet scientist his job or even his life. Nothing like this massive attack upon the observed and provable truth had happened in a major country since the persecution of Galileo for insisting that the earth revolves around...