Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neal. Here is a larger-than-life figure that has moved beyond the basketball court into acting and rapping and without being able to shoot free-throws or win a championship or MVP. I mean, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was starring in "Airplane!", he had some success under his belt...
...could be any of them. They slip into your Core classes and scamper right up to the front of the room. As if impelled by something deep inside, they belt out the first few bars of some vaguely familiar song. Then one of them steps out from the group to identify the ensemble and invite you to its "jam." Finally, they rattle off a few more notes and disappear as quickly as they arrived...
FARMERS' ALMANAC Forecast: The slightly younger rival publication says that "virtually the entire country will be subjected to stormy and unseasonably cold conditions for the upcoming winter, even in the so-called 'Sun-Belt' areas..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
Roth, who has already observed the life-extending effectiveness of caloric restriction in rodents, is conducting similar experiments with primates. Even if they succeed, however, trying to apply the treatment to humans could prove dicey. In a nation of consumers for whom caloric belt tightening can mean little more than a smaller serving of French fries with their bacon cheeseburgers, the belief that people would be willing to reduce what they eat by a full third is probably unrealistic...
Pause. "What are the rest of the words?" In consternation and frustration, I belt out "blah, blah, blah, blah, o'er Eli hold sway." Panicked, I realize that I do not know the words to Harvard's favorite cheer. Who am I kidding: not only do I not know some of the words; I can't even get through the first verse...