Word: belt
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Short of summoning the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to belt out the Horst Wessel Song in the Hollywood Bowl, the museum has spared no efforts to sample the culture of the time as vividly as possible for an audience to whom the Third Reich is, at most, a remote and unwelcome memory. And the catalog, with its essays by Barron and other hands, German scholars as well as American ones, is certain to remain the definitive study of Nazi cultural repression for many years to come...
...struggle for survival in a one-room communal hut in the Ural industrial town of Sverdlovsk. At six, he was looking after his two siblings, boiling potatoes and washing dishes. "It was a fairly joyless time," he recalls, possibly also because his father frequently thrashed him with a leather belt...
Ironically, more than 20 years ago, Salvucci was considered the driving force behind the widespread community protest which beat another highway exchange--the Inner Belt--a proposed traffic loop that would have circled around Boston and hosing in Cambridge...
...They were working-class people who didn't have the money or political power to fight [the Inner Belt]," Salvucci says. "These people shopped in certain places, went to church in certain places, did Boy Scouts in certain places. You couldn't just up and kick them...
...crisis signals an end to a decade of unprecedented expansion. Passenger travel, which soared to record levels in the aftermath of deregulation, is paralyzed by corporate belt-tightening and fear of terrorism. So far this year, international traffic is down 40%. In the U.S. 2 of every 5 seats are flying empty. As the war and the recession roll on, carriers are lightening their loads by suspending unprofitable routes, flying remaining ones less often and cutting costs. Airlines have reduced new orders for aircraft as much as 50%; 44,000 airline workers worldwide, from machinists in Kansas City to flight...