Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson, 59, a Russian-born, Hearst-trained veteran who came from Boston on temporary assignment to the Times-Herald in 1931, and stayed on. ¶ Advertising Director Edmund F. Jewell, 52, a former publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader. ¶Mechanical Superintendent (and onetime literary editor) J. Irving Belt, 64, who joined the old Washington Times 48 years ago as a hand typesetter. When he heard of his inheritance, his ailing heart began fluttering and he took to his bed. ¶Night Managing Editor Mason Peters, 33, a Navy veteran, was hauled up from the police beat...
...Easter [1947] High Mass was the most gripping and solemn service I ever experienced. Sixty Lutheran P.O.W.s from the Bible belt near Bielefeld, Germany, approached me on Holy Saturday night and asked for permission to come to our Catholic liturgy and Holy Communion. My heart stood still for a moment. By questioning them, I found out that all of them believe in the Real Presence,† that nearly all of them were used to confessing their sins, and all knew how to elicit perfect contrition. All had been baptized . . . by believing Lutheran ministers...
...disturbed areas, without fanfare and with no other vehicle than his own sleek Packard. In broiling La Paz, he spotted a stooped little man whom he himself, when Secretary of the Interior, had discharged as mayor (for insubordination) twelve years before. From the man's cartridge belt dangled a huge pistol...
...belt extending almost around the world (from East Pacific islands to southeast Asia, equatorial Africa, northeast coast of South America, and up to the Caribbean islands), 189,000,000 people have filariasis, which causes swelling in the lymphoid tissues. About 20,000,000 people have oncocerciasis, which causes blindness when the worms get into the eyes. A new antimony compound called Neostibosan has proved effective against filariasis, and another new drug, hetrazan, against oncocerciasis...
Five minutes into the second chukker, the rains came. A verliable cloudburst, which at one stage made the goalies invisible from the middle of the field, transformed the ground into a quagmire. But lacrosse games don't stop unless either one team is collectively struck by a lightening belt or something equally drastic occurs, so the contest continued despite the downpour...