Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City's ever-resilient fight against the proposed Inner Belt highway has bounced all the way from Cambridge to Washington and back during the past few months. The Belt, which only last spring seemed a sure thing, has now been put on the shelf again...
...twenty-year struggle against the eight-lane highway appeared lost last May, after the Massachusetts Department of Public Works announced its final choice of a route for the Cambridge link of the Belt--Brookline-Elm. Residents of the City had opposed any Belt route through Cambridge, but this route--which would pass near Central Square and displace some 1500 families--had always aroused the most anger...
...guards had defected and had then been recaptured by the military. Although it is hard to verify the defections, a number of the demonstrators say they saw at least one of the defectors. Right after the first announcement that an MP had "dropped his rifle, taken off his belt and helmet, and walked into the crowd," a soldier missing his rifle, belt, and helmet was marched (under what appeared to be armed guard) up the steps of the Pentagon and into the building...
...woman three loops at the top, and the rest is up to her," says another high-style shoe designer, David Evins. ''You cannot imagine what weird contraptions women have devised to hold them up." The Levines are more merciful: their boots also come with loops, plus a belt to hold the waders...
What's this? The towering Fenway arc-lights burn brightly. Can there be more to come? Of course, that's it--it's all a mistake. Yaz is in there taking post-game batting practice. He'll nap before tomorrow's game, belt a couple of homers, and the Sox will be champions of the world...