Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beyond 15,000 miles the Russians found no measurable ions, and Shklovsky believes that true interplanetary space has little or no resident gas. One possibility is that the streams of high-energy particles that shoot out of the sun (and probably cause the earth's Van Allen radiation belt) sweep the solar system clean of any gas that leaks into...
...session of Congress limped to an end, Kennedymen were confidently predicting that Jack's way with crowds would start gaining votes as soon as he could get out campaigning. The campaign had hardly begun. It would be won or lost, not in the South or the Farm Belt, or even in the big industrial states -New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and California-where Kennedy confidently counted his Catholicism an asset rather than a liability. It would be won or lost in the nation as a whole. For this is the first truly national campaign in which both candidates...
...North Carolina, where Ike four years ago lost by only 16,000 votes and Nixon interest is running high since his Greensboro visit; Florida, where Republicans are strong and Democrats are feuding; Kentucky and Oklahoma, each with considerable religious sentiment running; Tennessee, which has long had a traditional Republican belt in the east and now has an additional G.O.P. vote in the cities; and Texas, where Lyndon Johnson's home-state appeal is countered by a large bloc of conservative Democrats...
...general's belt tightening makes sense, but it has also raised unemployment and brought on a mild business recession. Unaccustomed to such tight money, Turkey's merchants have had to dig into their gold hoards to meet current costs. Farmers, promised cement and sugar-beet plants by Menderes, now talk openly against Gursel when there are no soldiers around. There is grumbling, too, over the fact that the army is still making occasional arrests for "antirevolutionary activities," a vague charge theoretically punishable by death and thus a powerful damper on the right to dissent...
...tested on a human being under actual space conditions. Only minimum shielding against cosmic radiation will be needed on manned earth satellites; their low orbits (125 miles for the U.S.'s Mercury, 200 miles for the U.S.S.R.) will keep them at least 500 miles below the belt of dangerous radiation particles that girdles the earth...