Word: propped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game, gold and silver coins glutted the ticket office because "nobody used that dirty paper money." But when kickoff time came, there was nothing to kick off. A student had to be dispatched by street car to a nearby sporting-goods store to buy the vital prop of the spectacle: a ball. Still, it was a happy memory: Stanford...
...might be expected, a comic invention of this sort is the mother of some fairly silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint...
...streaking altitudes on Instrument Flight Rules. Moving their transparent markers ("shrimp boats") alongside little blips, they warn of nearby traffic, give directions, order changes in headings and altitudes. If a plane is a 550-m.p.h. jet, the controller gives the pilot 100 miles' clear space ahead, 100 behind; prop-driven planes get 35 miles. Through controllers and towers, miles of Teletype wire and a host of electronic machines, schedules are juggled, flights shifted, with split-second decision and never-ending attention to detail...