Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some of the crowd had brought old-fashioned trainmen's whistles, shrill enough to make a hound bay. Nonetheless, Chéreau came out to take curtain calls, wearing blue jeans, a shiny mod belt and a patient smile. Said he later: "I was very amused at the booing...
...following year proved the first of Old Tom Morriss' four Open victories. Old Tom was eventually dethroned by his son, fittingly enough known as Young Tom, who held a death grip on the championship belt until his own abrupt passing at the age of 24 on Christmas day, 1925. For golf purists, the 1861 shindig is revered as the first true British Open since amateurs were no longer barred and the contest was unequivocally declared "open to all the world...
Corn borers and rootworms are attacking crops in the Midwest corn belt at a prodigious rate, and the boll weevil?between crop loss and control measures?annually costs U.S. farmers...
...Belt Tightening. The leaders pondered the special problems of Italy, which has just emerged from crucial elections in which the Communists scored gains but failed to replace the Christian Democrats as the dominant party. The Western leaders obviously are eager to help Italy overcome its economic dilemma (unemployment is 7%, growth is a mere 1.5%). Yet, they want to prod the Italians into meaningful reforms and large budget cuts...
...could not be determined so long as Italy's political situation remained "complicated." By that, he obviously meant until the role of the Communists in the nation's political life was clearer. Treasury Secretary Simon bluntly told reporters that foreign loans would "require necessary belt-tightening by the Italians." He added: "Otherwise, it would mean throwing the money out the window." Even so, Simon suggested, Italy might be allowed a "super-tranche "(meaning roughly an extra-big slice of borrowing from the International Monetary Fund), until it had surmounted its problems. Britain also came under criticism from...