Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grimy streets. Instead, the stigmata of the worst of the 20th century abound: the sprawl of brick factories, the grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that the Parisian worker lives and plies his trade...
...Belt came the muscle that nearly overturned De Gaulle; what the students began, only the French workers ever had any chance of finishing. On the surface, the cry for "worker power" seemed an unnecessary and ungrateful response to the Fifth Republic. In the decade of Gaullism, France's workers, particularly the skilled ones who earn an average $195 each month, have enthusiastically entered the consumer economy. Fully 70% of all workers' households have a refrigerator, a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner. Though only 46% of all French families own TV sets, at least...
...natives call the $45 million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering and construction firm in the world...
...stranding the 15 on a lifesaving ledge. The unlucky ten working at the source of the flood were presumed to have drowned. Boreholes were drilled from the surface to the lucky 15, through which rescuers lowered hot coffee and food; after five days of entombment, they rode a conveyor belt out of the mine...
Meanwhile the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will be deprived of nearly $1,000,000 annual dues payments from its largest affiliate. There won't be any need for belt tightening, claimed George Meany last week. Said he: "We've got a terrific surplus-six, seven, eight million, I guess...