Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt" of land around Havana and plant it with fruits and vegetables. Many workers have no choice about where or when they labor. Army troops, militiamen, bureaucrats and even cabinet ministers are expected to "volunteer" for field work. Those who do not often wind up on forced-labor details...
...good neighborhood. Though he and his wife are rarely at home in the evenings (they work), white neighbors are already complaining about "too much noise between 6 and 9." Witherspoon was approached by Black Nationalist Ron Karenga's boys shortly after his return (he holds a karate black belt), but turned down the invitation to join the revolution. Now he is not so sure. "Sometimes I feel it was all for nothing," he says of Viet Nam. "You know, we go over there and tell them their house is dirty before we got our own house clean...
Though he is not quite in the class of that other royal karate expert, Greece's black-belted King Constantine, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón is good enough to have earned a brown belt, first class, and proud enough of it to invite Madrid photographers to take a look. The occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become...
...first stanza: Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world; When it comes to defense and defiance, Stand united as brothers, From the Meuse to the Meinel, from the Adige to the Belt, Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world. Today the Meuse River flows in France and Belgium, the Memel in Lithuania, the Adige in Italy, and the Belt in Denmark...
...private and official investigations turned up the facts that prompted the grand jury action. So far at least three possible murders have been uncovered. One convict was tied to his cot and burned to death behind the locked gate of his cell; another man was found hanged by his belt after he begged to be moved from his cell for fear of being killed; a third inmate was allegedly beaten to death. The stories of two former inmates, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, suggested that murder was merely the end result of the constant brutality and venality that prevailed...