Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matched the willingness of the student to make scarifies beyond the simple foregoing of critical foods. Savings in milk, meat and desserts proposed in the original Council ballot were essentially more money-savers and will not be openly recommended, although such reductions would call for little noticeable belt-tightening. But with a well-organized collection of direct money contributions, students should find the assumption of their responsibilities even more painless...
...Chico and Harpo together. And unlike Margaret Dumont, the gracious Mrs. Rittenhouse of earlier Marx Brothers triumphs, Rumann is not content to remain a foil, and Groucho must contend with him as both a Nazi and a gag-stealer. Harpo, with a new wig and a slightly more fashionable, belt-trailing polo-coat, does his soulful best, but too often must fade out for the sake of the plot. The "situation" routines, a part of the permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when he grabbed the opportunity to pull one, were in character. When asked...
Then the long review was over. Karl Frank was led to the foot of a tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...concern of thousands. His syndicate employs some 5,000 Negroes. Political bosses and ward heelers depend on him to deliver the vote; court officials and police get a healthy cut of the weekly $7,500 in syndicate protection money; the 337,000 citizens of Chicago's teeming Negro belt consider him a hero and a symbol. All of them insist that he remain free and happy...
...concessions out of Peru, a customs union out of Bolivia, and has brought the Peron-sponsored candidates into a favored position in the coming Uruguayan elections. The U.S. may propose hemisphere military cooperation, but unless it supplements surface collaboration with effective economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration of the consequences of this threat during any future emergency. As far as the United...