Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crew I came to know worked on a melon machine. It looks like a large dinosaur or insect. It has a lower conveyor belt on which the melons are placed. The belt is periodically turned on by the machine operator and brings the melons to one end of the machine where a second conveyor belt with vertical slats brings the melons up and over into a truck parked at one end of the machine. The machine moves sideways through the field and people walk behind it picking up melons and placing them on the belt. I would walk with them...
...given to frequent exclamations, flurries of rhetorical questions ("Is she not the single most desirable creature I have ever known?") and carefully italicized emphases. He tosses off one-liners (calling, for instance, his Aunt Sylvia "the Benvenuto Cellini of strudel") as if he has a stable of Borscht Belt writers churning out his material. On the psychiatric couch, Kepesh is a regular lie-down comic: "I cannot maintain an erection, Dr. Klinger. I cannot maintain a smile, for that matter...
...there was a bright side to the discovery last week that Harvard quarterback Tim Davenport was out for the season, it was the fact that the team had two non-league games coming up--two chances for an heir to emerge and get some experience under his belt before the lvy League wars resumed...
...much and too little. In the Northwest and parts of the Midwest and central California, many grain growers were staggering under the effects of the worst drought in decades (see map page 18). Yet in most of the rich cornfields of the Central U.S. and the sweeping grain belt of the Great Plains, the rain came when it was needed. The land responded generously-and now Jimmy Carter's Administration is grappling with the problem of what to do with the immense bounty...
Another idea, already acted on by Algeria, would create pockets of trees, shrubs and other barriers against the Sahara in a so-called green belt across the breadth of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. The Sahel nations are talking of a similar desert project in the south...