Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was supposed to visit the White House, he arrived at his office with muddy shoes, rolled-up pant legs, two ties hitched together in place of a belt. He had been on a stroll in muddy Rock Creek Park, had forgotten to change...
...group of sailors was standing in the stern of the W. D. Anderson, chewing the fat about foreign ports. One of them, Frank Leonard Terry, was a strong swimmer; he used to be a lifeguard. When the torpedo hit, he jumped overboard at once, without a life belt, while the rest hesitated. A billowing tower of fire and smoke swallowed the ship, and fire spread over the water. In the icy water Sailor Terry stripped off his clothes and swam hard for an hour, to get away from the fire. He could feel the heat of it on the back...
Yale has a record to date of three wins and two losses, while the Crimson, with one more contest under its belt, won only two matches and encountered two overwhelmed shutouts...
...hours her captors tried to make her talk. They flogged her with a leather belt, punched her with their fists. They held lighted matches to her chin. They scraped a saw across her back. They walked her, at bayonet point, barefoot through the snow for hours...
Then with stone walls crumbling, bar racks and asylums emptying fast, penitentiaries ablaze, and the Capitol presumably under control, Poet Cowley heard "an unchoked sigh, a moan of liberation" rise from mean streets, moonless areaways, factory gates, convict camps and the Cotton Belt...