Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year even the "White Noose," the exclusive suburban belt that rings Washington, has firmly slipped to some extent. The President's order barring discrimination in federally assisted housing let Negroes move into the suburbs for the first time...
After separating from the Agena second stage, the two odd objects headed for orbits 60,000 miles above the earth. There, well above the Van Allen radiation belt, they will act as the outermost sentries of the U.S. nuclear alarm system. If any nation explodes a nuclear test in space, the orbiting icosahedrons should promptly report a violation of the test ban treaty...
...coed; others put it down as misogynist, or too tough. Few know that M.I.T. offers humanities courses, and well-taught ones, too. And there is the lingering Boston image of the Tech coed as "a girl five feet tall and equally wide, a slide rule hanging at her belt, who can speak only in differential equations...
...clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee. Sy recommends leather boots to go with all this. The overall impression is a kind of subdued ostentation, part banker, part bookie, part ivy, part jivy. Everything is lined with paisley silk...
...delay means nothing to her. To the audience, however, it means a chance to see Her Grace, swaddled in a frock that may well be a 19th century golf bag and surmounted by a flat green hat that looks like a Sussex divot, fight free of a tenacious seat belt, roll down the ramp and stagger to the airport bar, where the headwaiter respectfully bellows: "A LARGE BRANDY...