Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fitzgibbons kicked off his round by cranking out a stupendous drive that ended up on the apron of the elevated green, a belt of 290 yards over a yawning trap. He then needed four putts to hole out after nudging a tenative first putt well short...
Donovan, who doubles as assistant athletic information director, viewed the tourney as a "chance to get one under our belt," saying, "I don't want our people going into the ECAC as their first event...
...much remains the same. Given its predominantly Anglo-Saxon traditions and largely Protestant population-black and white-Christian revelation is a way of life in Dixie. "Others tend to scoff at the Bible Belt," says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor of international law at the University of Georgia. "But one can point to a strong sense of personal responsibility it engenders." Florida Governor Reubin Askew believes that "your faith has to be at the center of your life, and from it must emanate all your decisions...
WALKER PERCY, 60, poet and novelist: I can see the South easily becoming simply a part of the Sunbelt-maybe the heart of a Southern belt running all the way from Virginia around to Los Angeles. I can see it just emerging into another Texas, with wheeler-dealer politics, Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, with Billy James Hargis and Billy Graham...
Around the corner from the subway stop at Dudley Station, at the District 2 city police headquarters, cops and secretaries lounged around, jingling the keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, reform-minded and very high profile police commissioner...