Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first all the worst fears of pessimists seemed justified. In the copper-belt city of Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia's largest (pop. 78,300), angry white mobs swirled through the streets, shrieking curses and obscenities. One European sent an African sprawling in the gutter, gloated, "That's the fourth one I've sorted out tonight." In a Kitwe nightclub, two Africans were quietly having dinner when a white customer walked over and punched one in the jaw. Police urged the bleeding African to press charges. "No, sir," he replied. "They've got to learn, and we must...
Firmly backed by the colonial government, police arrested scores of troublemakers, and the courts wasted no time in imposing fines and warning of jail terms for second offenders. As violence subsided, Rhodesian whites tried boycotting. Throughout the copper belt, cafe owners moaned that their white customers were nowhere to be seen...
...speak in wild, enthusiastic language, which sounds neither maudlin nor contrived: They crying no more blackman sweat to sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie to draw water to wash baccra foot. Sun come up to tell woman to tie her head and man to buckle his belt; to get ready to rule... The story is full of sun and bright colors and the narrator's simple diction makes the abundant sense-imagery all the more vivid: So I go down into that gully to make water, with the smell of cinnamon in the air and red flowers blooming...
...both camps agreed that Kennedy stood to gain from the religion furor-so long as a counterreaction did not set in out of suspicion that he was deliberately exploiting it. Some Protestant Democrats might be roused to vote against him on the basis of religion alone in the farm belt and in the Deep South. But in the populous industrial states that he needs most of all-New York (35% Catholic), New Jersey (43%), Pennsylvania (31%), Illinois (33%), Michigan (24%), Ohio (21%), Wisconsin (32%)-Kennedy stands a good chance of winning, if he can solidify the Democratic Catholic vote that...
Fuel Cells & Rocket Belts. The next major U.S. inventive breakthrough comparable to the transistor may well be the fuel cell-a cheap, efficient, reliable way of converting fuel to electricity with no moving parts. Some 50 U.S. companies are working on the problem; when it is solved, it will provide a compact, noiseless power source for propulsion, lighting, heating, may even bring back the electric auto. The ancient dream of man, individual flight, perhaps with a scuba-like rocket belt, is under serious development. The U.S. Army has awarded Bell Aero-systems a $60,000 research contract for a rocket...