Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...
...Hope. Phil Murray traveled the grimy U.S. Steel belt, trying to bolster the morale of his striking followers, vowing to stick to his demand for 10?-an-hour pensions and insurance financed solely by the industry. Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching spent a futile week in Washington and New York City talking with steel-industry leaders...
...Germany, Lippmann insists, the peril is Germany's "historic tendency" to join up opportunely with the Russians. He believes, therefore, that the Atlantic pact should be a shield as much against a revived Germany as against Russia; he would exclude from the pact a belt of neutral buffer states running from Scandinavia through Western Germany, Austria and Italy. Two weeks ago Lippmann expressed his fear that the State Department is planning to make Britain a junior partner in a close U.S.-British alliance, leaving Germany dominant in Europe...
...deal for six ounces of heroin. The priest directed him to Montreal's Central Station, where the heroin was stored in a locker. For three months after that, the police let Father Taillefer operate freely, keeping watch on him and his associates in Montreal's crime belt. When the Mounties pounced four weeks ago, three other Montrealers, who are still awaiting trial, were charged along with Father Taillefer. A cache of 15,000 heroin capsules ("enough to keep the city going for nearly two years") was found...
...tourist uniform looked something like this: He had a crew cut, khaki pants, and a seersucker coat with the green edge of a U. S. passport showing above the edge of his inside breast pocket. There was always a camera in a leather case slung Sam Brown belt style over one shoulder, and in his right hand he carried a guide book, open. Vendors of beads, lace, and leather goods, and certain attractive young business women could spot him a mile...