Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no denying that most of the public has been apathetic about using the surest, simplest protection against violent death: the seat belt. Robert Wolf, director of Cornell University's auto-crash injury research, says that if seat belts were used universally they would reduce traffic deaths by at least 35%-more than 17,000 lives a year. Only 30% of the nation's 90 million cars have seat belts, and only 36% of the drivers with belts use them all the time. Hundreds of irate motorists have complained to auto companies that the seat belts...
...catties (two tons) of cabbage; second, if they do not give us the cabbage, they must take off their trousers and thank us for our kindness." Yeh soon had all her clothes taken off. Chou refused to shed his clothes, whereupon Yang and his soldiers cut his belt in two with a scythe and laughed heartily. Yeh used a handkerchief to cover the lower part of her body. When the victims began to shiver with the cold, Yang cried out: "You can warm up by running around the basketball court once!" [Yang was later arrested and tried for "foolish, ridiculous...
Clay scored heavily in the seventh round, and Chuvalo connected also--except that three of his four sound tags during the round were below the belt...
...councillors will debate two separate proposals tabled from yesterday's regular meeting -- one for a study of Memorial Drive's possibilities as an alternate Belt route, the other for an all-out Washington campaign against any Inner Belt at all in Cambridge...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 sharply criticized Vellucci's proposal. "We would just be pouring good money down the drain after other good money," Crane told the Council. "The emphasis should now be on blocking all Belt routes...