Word: propped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little choice but to stick with them. He rejects the use of armed force, partly because it would be political suicide for his Labor Party at home. He is afraid to plug the holes in his economic blockade by extending the sanctions to South Africa, whose gold is a prop for the sagging British pound. At the same time, Wilson wants desperately to win in Rhodesia. He is convinced, as are many members of his government, that unless Britain can prove its good intentions, the Commonwealth will eventually disintegrate entirely...
...Woman is a pictorially stunning, emotionally stumbling film about a woman mesmerized by the memory of her late husband, a jaunty movie stunt man who was killed while dancing through a battlefield set where a prop man's shell misfired. One Sunday at the Deauville school where their young children board, the widow (Anouk Aimée) meets a handsome widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a racing driver whose wife impulsively committed suicide, thinking that he had been killed in a crash at Le Mans...
...made the airlines the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., expanding by an average 14% a year since 1950, as against 8.4% for the runner-up, electric utilities. The pell-mell pace is still accelerating: this year U.S. airlines plan to take delivery of 287 new jet and turbo-prop planes worth almost $1.5 billion, nearly twice as much as they spent on equipment in 1965. With that outlay, the industry will add as much seat-mile capacity as it had altogether in 1950. The airlines are already the nation's No. 1 public carrier. Last year they accounted...
Kilty is marvelous at conveying Falstaff's weight; and when he drops his walking stick in the first tavern scene, he has trouble picking it up -- with hilarious effect. This stick, by the way, is his chief prop -- a little too short, and comically bent. It looks all the funnier when juxtaposed with the long straight staff carried by the prim and proper Chief Justice (Alexander Clark). When Kilty tries to use his stick as a sword, the result is worthy of W.C. Fields' famous attempt to play pool with a crooked...
...dropped to a 15-month low of $2.78 27/32, rallied to $2.79 2/32. But in the finance ministries and central banks of Europe and North America, money managers were asking: "How long, O Lord, how long?" Ex actly how long does the world have to continue to prop up the pound...