Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illusion. Many of us, even though we had few illusions about Russia, made the mistake of underestimating the dynamism of the Russian system. We believed that, having a wider geographic base than Naziism, the Russian system could afford a more static policy and ultimately find security in the wide belt of eastern Europe assigned to it. A trip through Europe . . . has convinced me that the Russians are not, and will riot be, satisfied with an system of eastern European defenses but are seeking to extend their power over the whole of Europe...
With a rugged, big league victory under its belt, the Harlow eleven should make rapid gains in cohesion and finesse hereafter. For Crimson followers, the football market is moving...
...pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert's previous 58 jumps...
...prizewinner was a five-foot straw woman with a lifelike straw baby on her back. The baby did the scaring, with a toy windmill whose blades swung in the wind. From the woman's belt dangled a paper banner inscribed: "Increase Production...
...some 100,000 civil service employes who get cost-of-living bonuses, this rise in prices meant another $6 to $7 million in their annual paychecks. For all other Canadians it just meant a tighter belt...