Word: belt
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Space itself is full of unevaluated perils. Until U.S. satellite Explorer I climbed into orbit in 1958, no one knew that the earth is surrounded by the Van Allen belt of deadly radiation. No one knows yet how the radiation fluctuates in position and strength, or the effect it may have on human bodies and brains...
Space beyond the belt has unknown perils too. Bright flares breaking out of the sun occasionally fill it with X rays, ultraviolet and erratically curving streams of high-energy particles. No one knows how to forecast these tempests in space, or how to keep them from killing unshielded spacemen. If manned lunar spacecraft must be protected by heavy shielding, the rockets that launch them will have to be made bigger, and this will cause change and long delay all down the line...
Without Bicker or Bother. Below the northern tier is the Black Belt, cutting a 100-mile-deep, 14-county swath across the state. The Black Belt got its name not so much for its concentration of Negroes as for its fertile dark brown soil. Once the heart of Alabama's cotton kingdom, the rolling, sparsely populated belt has changed radically in recent years: the houses where cotton sharecroppers once lived are now stuffed with hay to feed cattle, for livestock raising has become Alabama's No. 1 agricultural business...
Racist sentiment runs high in the Black Belt. This feeling certainly includes the belt's major city-and state capital-of Montgomery (pop. 134,000), which prides itself on its wide avenues, colonnaded houses, and its devotion to the cause of segregation. It was in Montgomery that Martin Luther King Jr. seven years ago won a boycott-battle to integrate the city's buses; yet today Montgomery whites contentedly point out that most Negroes still sit in the rear of buses because "that's where they like to ride...
...hoist those big balloons up through the hatch of the blimp? Nobody thinks of cutting the strings and letting the balloons just drift away as Gig holds on to Grover. Instead, Buttons takes a rifle and plugs the balloons one by one while hanging from the blimp by his belt. Eventually the last balloon goes splop-psssssssss. And so does the movie...