Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason: April's fitful weather. Pasture grass was off to a slow start. In the vast grain belt between the Rockies and the Mississippi, rainfall was 30% below normal. East of the Mississippi, late frosts had struck the peach trees and vegetable gardens. In New England, farmers were far behind in their planting...
Richmond Morcum of New Hampshire was the sensation of the meet as he walked off with three titles tucked under his belt. He took the high jump with a 6 ft., 4 in. leap and the broad jump with a 23 ft., 10 in. effort, and finished a good day's work by triumphing in the pole vault at 14 feet...
...America, Henry Wallace may well find that the major remaining chore of his term will be to look for a new job. Practical Democrats took him in 1940 only at Franklin Roosevelt's insistence. Henry Wallace lost his own farm state of Iowa; by 1942 the whole farm belt was solidly Republican...
Illinois's tall, rangy Senator Scott W. Lucas, not more than a 75% New Dealer. The Democrats' only successful vote-getter in the farm belt, Scott Lucas stock would rise if the G.O.P. nominee is from the Midwest...
...suspicious hermit reddened with anger. "I have money to pay for what I need. You have to sell it to me." Not so, retorted the grocer: the King must register. "I'll sign for nothing," shouted the King. "All the book I need is in my gun belt." He drew the pistol, tossed some bills on the counter, scooped up his supplies, backed...