Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVE TO SIGN ANYTHING TO VOTE FOR GENE MCCARTHY. As the balloting neared, L.B.J. loyalists began hitting below the belt, offending Hampshiremen's sense of fairness. When McCarthy supported "selective conscientious objection" to the draft, Senator Thomas Mclntyre described him as one who would "honor draft dodgers and deserters." Governor John King declared that any significant vote for McCarthy "would be greeted with cheers in Hanoi." Radio commercials at tacked "peace-at-any-price fuzzy thinkers who say 'Give up the goal, burn your draft card and surrender...
...three enemy divisions menacing Saigon. It employed more than 50 battalions formed from the U.S. 1st, 9th and 25th Divisions and the South Vietnamese 5th and 25th Divi sions, plus task forces of Vietnamese marines and paratroopers. The nearly 50,000 troops fanned out through a five-province belt around the capital...
...practically every tournament he plays. But Jack is suddenly experiencing the problem that every aging prodigy faces: youngsters are tapping him on the shoulder and saying, "Move over, Dad." This spring, as never before, professional golf has been invaded by an army of ambitious newcomers who can belt a ball every bit as far as their elders (or farther), dig divots on the greens with the bite of their approach shots, and putt as if the cups were canyons. Their dedication, determination and disrespect ("Arnie who?") underline their promise. Five of the best...
...Chicago, Wright worked at odd menial jobs and encountered the same fears and prejudices he had left at home. He worked nights as a postal clerk and spent his days reading and "filling endless pages with stream-of-consciousness Negro dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the black belt as he felt and saw them...
...long as 2,000 years afterward, the scientists estimate, the field will be so weak that it will not trap high-velocity electrons and protons streaming toward the earth from the sun. Instead of being confined by the magnetic lines of force to the Van Allen radiation belt, many of these particles will penetrate the atmosphere and strike the surface of the earth-causing an increase in mutation rates at best, eradicating entire species of animals and plants at worst...