Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games with his four sons One-hand touch usually serves for tyros two-hand touch below the waist for the more experienced. Wearying of the inevitable arguments about touches or misses, the experts tag each other by yanking away a "flag" of canvas tucked under each player's belt...
Every major power bloc has reason to resist reform. Any move toward a popular vote would shear the power of small states. Under either a popular or proportional system, big-city ethnic minorities and labor unions would lose their power to swing entire states. Deep-South Democrats and Farm-Belt Republicans could no longer deliver unbroken chunks of electoral votes-and their power in party councils would diminish...
Iowa. Norman Arthur Erbe, 41, is, by local reckoning, "a good old Iowa stubborn conservative." As state attorney general he has become well known as a corn-belt Comstock through his war against pornographic magazines. A massive (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) lawyer and an impressive speaker, Republican Erbe is the son of a Lutheran minister, a war hero (D.F.C., 35 combat missions over Europe as a B-17 pilot). He advocates a cut in property taxes, more state aid to schools (to be paid for out of the huge surplus), revival of the state highway program...
...inspire fresh violence from the small but dangerous band of Japanese who share his fanatical right-wing views and uphold the prewar tradition of political assassination. Last week a group of them went to the jail, presented the boy's parents with a burial coat, kimono and belt, then escorted the body of their hero home...
...campaign was unique in Massachusetts annals in that it lacked a surplus of corruption charges, below-the-belt exchanges, and name-calling. No one would catch Salty participating in such political trash and O'Connor had better things on his mind...