Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Committee One discussed admission of Eire, Albania, Portugal, Trans-Jordan and the Mongolian People's Republic. The overheated committee room, with its entire contents of delegates, tables and sorely tried hopes, seemed to swim in a bluish haze of tobacco smoke. Cuba (Guillermo Belt) dozed off, woke up a quarter-hour later, rosy-cheeked and refreshed. Later, South Africa (Jan Christian Smuts) went to sleep. Declared Liberia (C. Abayomi Cassell): ". . . We will not move the big powers-each of them has its own fish...
...wood for the roof, we had to supply a, belt for a band saw. To get the belt we had to promise some cement in exchange. To get the cement we had to promise some wine. To get the wine we had to promise to help the wine merchant find an apartment. And we were able to find an apartment because I knew of a woman who had committed suicide because...
Other observations of F.D.R.: EURJ "He never resented any blow that landed above the belt. [But] his irritation was invariably stirred by the mean and little. Being 'nibbled to death by ducks' was the way he phrased it." CJ He signed the bill authorizing the Chemical Warfare Service with horror and disgust. CWS's results, says Mclntire, "were and are, in my opinion, more . . . devastating than the atomic bomb. . . ." CJ He was contemptuous of his own safety, saying "If anyone wants to kill me, there is no possible way to prevent him." When
With four straight victories under its belt, the Crimson eleven rose to twentieth place in this week's Associated Press poll of the leading teams of the 1946 season. The plumber twenty spot represented the highest rating reveived by any team in New England...
...thing his chain of papers needed, said shrewd little Roy Howard, was a change of pace. The Scripps-Howard chain had a full stable of heavy and medium-heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30-year-old Robert C. Ruark, a balding, Southern-accented graduate of the sports pages, was the country's fastest-climbing columnist. His readily readable pieces, studded with flip and flossy phrases, were running in 19 Scripps-Howard papers and 20 others. He was making $500 a week...