Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a three hold advantage under his belt at the close of the nine holes, Line Kinnicutt hold the biggest lead of all the Crimson players. Ozzie Keiver pulled up with a two hole advantage, Captain Savidge was all even, and Bob Mattson had dropped a hole at the close of the day's shivering activities...
...wind stripped the clothes from scores; one man roused from unconsciousness, found he was wearing nothing but his belt and the pockets of his pants. People were blown bodily through the littered air. In three minutes, ten people were killed and all but four of Fosterburg's 80 houses and stores were reduced to debris...
...acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham always choose to grin, because what saves them-and makes them more fabulous than life-size-is that they never condescend to be mean and sniveling mortals...
Novelist (Message from a Stranger) Marya Mannes, another Town Hall debater, was shocked. "Dickens is a creative artist," she snapped, "and Mr. Capp is a conveyor belt." The only good thing about the comics, said Mrs. Mannes, is that the most popular strips are in the most irresponsible papers, and serve to keep people from reading their editorials...
...Totally baseless," Belt charged. "No college professor ever suggested such a thing." He also labelled false such assertions that Adams drove a neurotic alligator to Nevada, built booby traps for Halloween Prankaters, and made over $10,000 on similar weird jobs last year...