Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the first torpedo, the communications system coolly announced: 'Blow up your lifebelts.' I was in this process when the second torpedo struck, and the settling ship and crazy angle were so apparent that I didn't continue blowing the belt...
Baptist. Dr. William A. Elliott, President of the Northern Baptist Convention: "Now that the Japanese have struck us under the belt...there is but one opinion among us. The struggle must be won for democracy, and Baptist ministers...
...practice grew with the population of the wheat belt, Dr. Mayo went back to Manhattan, studied surgery and gynecology. After he returned he began removing ovarian tumors, soon became so successful in the specialty that doctors came from all over the State to watch his work. He did not believe in antisepsis, always wore tails and top hat, and carried his instruments loose in his pockets...
...pulled the paper stuffing out of the grenade pouches in his belt and stuck the newly arrived "pineapples" in place. He had limbered up his new gas mask, which he would need more than legs in case of a heavy dust storm, and he had tucked away half a dozen pairs of flimsy Cellophane dust-goggles. He had pinched a piece of netting from a truck's camouflage to drape over his helmet-both for his personal camouflage and for swishing away flies. He had bound up the desert sores on the backs of his hands...
Punched twice by Washington last week, U.S. lead producers thought both punches were below the belt. First Leon Henderson told them that lead prices should not go above the present 5.85? a lb. Then OPM asked them to operate their mines "six days a week and where possible seven...