Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...
Today Americans are denied the whoop-dedoo promotion of Barry's Tricopherous, or Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, or Wine of Cardui, or Madame Dean's French Female Pills, or Dr. Dye's Voltaic Belt, or even Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. But the television viewer, morosely staring at an armpit, or watching little hammers beat a brain, or listening to the simulated gurgling of a stomach, knows that the spirit of the medicine man is still around...
...incoming flights, a conveyor moving at 500 feet per minute sweeps bags along the belt to the arrival room, where two dumping carts spill luggage to be claimed. The passenger, unless he is on fire, cannot beat his bag to the claim area...
...only responsibility left to the outgoing passenger is to place his luggage in individual trays on a conveyor belt, only 16 inches from the street curb. After that, the bags are tagged and weighed while still on the belt, their flight number transmitted by the ticket agent (into a binary decimal code) on a device like a small adding machine, and lifted mechanically to a massive, subterranean maze of conveyors. As they hit the main conveyor belt, the bags are moved 500 feet in one minute to an area below the loading building where they circuit slowly, for as long...
Four decades ago, one of the sounds of status in homes across the U.S. farm belt was the pop, pop, pop of a gasoline engine on Monday morning-a tip-off that the inhabitants were prosperous enough to own a Maytag washing machine. Today, a remarkable number of the same machines-converted to electricity-are still washing clothes. Even more remarkable, the Maytag Co. of little Newton, Iowa, has withstood the churnings that have long since washed out most independent laundry-machine makers, now stands a strong second in the billion-dollar industry. Outstripped in sales only by Whirlpool Corp...