Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Embarrassing Prisoner. Roland Hayes, who weighs 120 lb., told what happened next: "I went to the store to rectify any trouble that might have been caused, and as I left a policeman caught me in the belt and dragged me back. I protested I had done nothing and I denied my wife had cursed [as the clerk contended]. I told them my wife didn't curse. When I said that, a man not in officers' garb gave me all he had on the jaw. Then I was dragged to the patrol car, handcuffed between two officers...
Prodded by Franklin Roosevelt, the Senate approved the request for authority to sell the surplus wheat. Not so the House, mindful of elections and the Corn Belt vote...
Conquest alone will not achieve this rail belt, and thus lessen Japan's dependence on her vulnerable sea communications. Japan will have to complete the chain with at least 600 miles of new railway. Furthermore, any Shanghai-Singapore route will be workable and safe from Allied air attack only if interior China is conquered. But the prospective rewards for Japan are great. Forestalling them is one job for the new U.S. Air Force in China, one that will take more planes than the U.S. had in China last week...
...Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt who was deemed a beauty. From 1935 on, he poked into the hornets' nest of European power politics. He was for peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like himself should save the peace. By his own account he trotted back & forth between Göring and Chamberlain, doing...
...experiences that almost maniac desire for activity that from now on will alternate continually with melancholia and depression." He tries to hang himself with his belt. The job is too unpleasant. He begins to feel the true weight of "utter, bleak silence. It is only in prisons that air is so deaf...