Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Misbehavin' attempts to recreate the atmosphere of a jumping nightspot, like the Cotton Club, in the Harlem of the 1930s. The performers belt out the songs, pushing each other out of the spotlight in mock rivalry. If the mood suits them, they'll spring to their feet to tap out a furious rhythm, or languidly drape themselves across the piano-player on the stage, who frequently joins in the refrain. On more than one number, they exhort the audience to join...
...GRADY is a red-faced masonry contractor from North Carolina who likes to kibbitz with reporters in the newsroom of The Winston-Salem Journal. Walking clumsily, his big belly swaying over his belt with every step, he'd nod his head at the lady journalists, slap the backs of the men, lean on the edge of a file cabinet, and begin to expound...
...still have to persuade Congress of the wisdom of the president's proposals," Pimentel said. He called the research allocations "a long-range investment in the future of the country at a time when the government is tightening its belt...
...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...
...your living room furniture. It's all legal--after all these things are no longer yours--but it's a nasty business, and the people who do it for a living are nastier still--picture if you can the Frito Bandito with seven years of EST under his belt...