Word: propped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...substance, at least the debate afforded some moments of levity. The funniest line went to McCain who said that if Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan was to die while he was in office McCain would "do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's': I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him, and keep him as long as we could." It's a good thing at least one of the Republican candidates has his finger on the pulse of the American people...
...point, says Elena Freyre, executive director of the Cuban Committee for Democracy in Miami. "The next leader of Cuba will be from Cuba, not Miami," she says. "There are people there we need to start reaching out to." Freyre concedes that trading with Castro, now 73, could prop him up in the short run. More important, she insists, is ensuring that his successor is market- and democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi? Even Cuba...
...George W. Bush received applause for his closing remarks about restoring honor to the White House, while McCain was greeted with cheering and laughter for joking about his oft-criticized anger and describing how he would prop up Alan Greenspan "like they did in 'Weekend at Bernie's'" if he passed away...
...just as in real families, there is conflict about who gets what. Last week the company was pinned by a consumer who demanded that a World Wrestling Federation action doll be yanked from the shelves because both the wrestler it depicted, Al Snow, and the doll carry a prop that looks like a woman's severed head...
...baby or two. After naming your bundle of software joy, you can pop it into the changing room for a bath and dress it in impossibly cute bunny suits that come in every flavor from powder blue to tie-dye. Next, try your luck in the kitchen as you prop your baby up in a high chair and watch it hurl food on the floor. (Ingrate!) After the feeding fiascos, head to the backyard to water the flowers and play on the purple dinosaur slide. With Babyz's built-in voice-recognition feature, you can even teach baby to talk...