Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MIDWEST. Near St. Louis, Six Flags Over Mid-America is a corn-belt version of its lively Texan Six-Flagship. At Gurnee, Ill., halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, is Marriott's Great America, with its ten-story-high carrousel. Not to be missed is Cedar Point, 50 miles west of Cleveland, one of the few old-style amusement parks to have made it into the theme...
...across the nation's grain belt last week, farmers were bringing in the third bin-busting wheat crop in a row. Huge plantings of soybeans, corn and other grains are completed and, weather permitting, prospects for bumper yields of these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere...
Dutch society. Most are stateless, refusing Dutch citizenship. They keep largely to themselves, living in 63 government settlements. One of those ghettos is on the outskirts of Bovensmilde, a tidy, archconservative community in The Netherlands' "Bible belt." Young Moluccan radicals, many of whom have never seen their homeland, organized a government-in-exile for "the Republic of the South Moluccas" and demanded support to regain their islands. Dutch refusal to recognize their republic has led to increasing Moluccan terrorism...
Mike Stenhouse delivered the staggering belt with a three-run double. Stenhouse's RBI's gave him a season total of 40 by some estimates, believed to be a new Harvard record in that department...
There is no carrot with the stick. All I see ahead is an endless road of escalating prices against nonescalating income, with vast uncertainty about a better future for our children and theirs. I don't mind pulling in my belt, but I need more incentive than their mere survival...