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...enjoying relaxation." One woman who objected to this schedule was released from Liu's group with a letter of condemnation. No school or employer dared to take her on, and she was soon utterly destitute. By this time, Liu had become adept at turning out the kind of prop wash the party liked, but he wondered "how long it would be before the pressures on my own mind and the conflicts in my own heart and feelings would become in tolerable...
...little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies had landed in Normandy...
Businessman worry about rising and work mainly within the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. They concede their labours to be a valuable prop to later business manipulations...
...performances. (An Eisenhower staffer found a make-up man who had been a paratrooper; this reassured Ike, whose tables of organization had never before included a male beautician.) He discarded his glasses and exchanged them for a dark-rimmed pair, which he began to use as a prop during his speeches (as Winston Churchill had once advised...
Leaving San Francisco, Ike transferred from train to plane. (Mamie, who does not stand altitude well, went on by rail, did some whistle-stopping of her own.) At Long Beach he tried a "prop stop." It worked well: more than 4,000 turned up at the airport. Said Ike: "The so-called professional politicians . . . told me there was one thing you could not do-go to an airport and address a group of American citizens. I was told they simply wouldn't come. So I find out today that . . . those political friends of mine were wrong...