Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the Inner Belt Highway has been a nightmare for Cambridge. Now the City has awakened, but the nightmare hasn't gone away...
...instinctive isolationism, Roosevelt-who was anxious in any case to dump curmudgeonly old John Nance Garner as his two-term Vice President-chose his Agriculture Secretary for the vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb. But he also made many important...
...depend, has been barred to them. A nation whose economy is precariously based on tobacco and sugar exports has lost its two best customers: Britain and neighboring Zambia, which together took $93 million (or 52%) of Rhodesian exports. Whitehall aims to force devaluation of the Rhodesian pound and make belt-tightened Rhodesians turn against Smith...
...things he will concentrate on immediately is creating an efficient organization. He didn't have one last time, and its absence hurt badly. A few days before the election, McGovern recalls, he received word that many people whose homes are threatened by the huge Inner Belt highway had informally decided not to vote. This was in an area where he had worked hard and anticipated strong support. "But there was no group of people I could call together and say, 'I've heard that people in your area are going to stay home. Is it true? Let's get something...
...basic trouble with the play is that it is merely a shrewd exercise in Broadway marketing research. A vast number of New York theatergoers are Jews who savor a Borscht Belt humor and are traditionally susceptible to worthy causes-of which the hottest, currently, is the Negro's plight and rights. This mating of comedy, conscience and commerce fails to generate any excitement...