Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor hooked his left hand under the belt of his pants. It seems to be a characteristic gesture, but he has to suck his breath in hard to accomplish it: the former 100-pound high school basketball player occasionally seems to forget that he now carries a portly 185 pounds. What did he think of Pennsylvania Gov. William G. Scranton's chances? Scranton, he agreed, is the man to beat. "He has all the party professionals behind him, and while Nixon has grass-roots following, he can't convince the pros." Governor Brown said that Goldwater was badly hurt...
Student volunteers will conduct an adult literacy campaign this summer in Selma, Ala., in the heart of the southern "black belt." The immediate aim of the project is alleviation of widespread functional illiteracy, but the ultimate purpose is to make more Negroes qualified to vote...
Selma was chosen for the project because it has the typical black belt problem of massive functional illiteracy among Negroes, and because the Negro population has been awakened by a voter registration drive SNCC is conducting in the area...
Dunne still wrote warmly of Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Irish patriot Michael Collins, but he was harder on his enemies. When Nicholas Murray Butler joshed him about his weight, Dunne snapped: "Yes, my fat goes under my belt, but yours goes under your hat." At the 1916 Republican Convention, writes Dunne, "Henry Cabot Lodge would have given an eye for the nomination. Or perhaps that is going too far. Let us say he would have sacrificed his dearest friend for the honor...
...overwhelming vote, the wheat-men turned down the Administration program. According to present fore casts, the vote may mean falling prices and a loss of $600 million in income next year. But, with 1964 just around the corner and six wheat-belt Democrats up for Senate re-election (against only one Republican), national Democratic leaders no longer are talking about letting the farmers stew...