Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Wilmott Ragsdale wasn't sure you could do a loop in an Army glider until he went up in one at the new glider school at Twentynine Palms, California -suddenly felt his safety belt tighten and saw the desert above...
...though these pilots burned a black belt of gutted hulks across the desert, they noticed that the main German force was getting nearer, swinging north and east, splitting, opening like a jaw. Things seemed to be getting worse. A huge tank battle was developing, and Rommel seemed to be forcing his way north to the coast. The German High Command announced that the desert fighting was finally taking "a favorable course" for the Axis...
Unless war service interferes this bodes well for next year. With this summer's series of games with Army and Navy teams under their belt, the greener Juniors and Sophomores ought to have less inclination to tense when the heat is on. A sprinkling of capable Freshmen may also be expected to move up into vacant posts...
Wendell Willkie, who carried six corn-belt States in 1940, hovered this week in the background of a corn-belt primary. Iowa Republicans went to the polls to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate. They had four choices, but the fight centered on two: Governor George Wilson, veteran corporation lawyer and politico, and State Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornburg, backed by Willkie...
...Luckiest hanging was that of Will Purvis, 17-year-old Mississippian, convicted of shooting a neighbor in a Bible-belt feud. Hundreds watched the body fall, then tumble to the ground as the noose slipped. When the crowd cried: "Hang him!" the official doctor climbed on the gallows, asked for a show of hands from those who really wanted to see the boy die. Nobody raised his hand. Years later another man confessed the murder...