Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the tracks occasionally come a few Jap prisoners. A litter-borne Japanese captain, with bloody shoulder wounds swathed in bandages and with his ornate ceremonial sword still buckled to his belt, jolts by. Americans and Australians look curiously, the natives with hatred, at the captured. Japs. Once an American sergeant gave a canteen of water to a native carrier to a take over to a scraggy Jap. The native looked contemptuously at the prisoner, threw the canteen on the ground and spat: "Me no give water Japanese...
Eder and Forster led the Crimson attack with steady play and a display of passing that showed that the club has excellent promise. The entire team, with but three weeks of practice under its belt, showed concerted offensive strength, and a fair, but improving defense...
...hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
With a week of formal practice under its belt, the Crimson hockey team is rounding into shape for its first engagement of the season, a contest with Tufts at the Boston Skating Club at 5:30 o'clock on Friday. Coach John Chase's charges have been hampered slightly by a lack of ice, but the pucksters are expected to be a well-molded outfit when they face the Jumbos...
...colleagues do not propose to leave the city to its apparently inevitable fate. Instead of dispersing the city or making it smaller, they would quicken its blood stream by means of express highways; give it air to breathe by surrounding each business and industrial district with a green belt; make it self-contained by providing facilities for recreation and fuller living within the city itself...