Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...
...meet against Brown before his departure for the stormier waters of Great Lakes, is one outstanding returnee from last year on whom Ulen leans heavily. Forbes Norris looms as the leading contender for the distance pulls, with National competition in the 1500 meter event under his belt. Paired with Gorman, and keeping him company all the way, Ulen hopes, will probably be John Watkins, an ex-trooper of the 82nd Airborne. Bob Snow, who took over Gorman's chores last year, will probably supply depth...
...Economic and Financial Committee approved LaGuardia's plan rather than Acheson's. Naturally, Russia was one of the nine. "Food," cried Andrei Gromyko, must never be used by any nation "as a means of reaping political or other advantages." The U.S., he suggested, must tighten its belt...
...plane plunged into the cloud, Schaefer radioed back to Dr. Langmuir that he was about to begin. Then he carefully scattered six pounds of dry-ice pellets through the cloud in a belt three miles long. In two minutes flat the poisoned cloud was writhing with agonies so enormous that Dr. Langmuir could see them in faraway Schenectady...
...visits Harvard for one day, makes its recommendation and departs. Although other considerations are present, the principal measuring device by which the ad hoc committee judges the relative merit of the several candidates for a Department vacancy is the amount of published research each candidate has under his own belt...