The price tag hung from the belt and he pulled it off as he entered the chartroom and looked at it curiously.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Extending from the Gulf northward for about 150 miles ( 240 km ) is the outer belt of the Coastal Plain, also called the Timber Belt, whose soil is sandy and poor, but responds well to fertilization.

Alemannic belt mountings, from a 7th century grave in the Alemannic grave field | grave field at Weingarten ( Württemberg ) | Weingarten.

It might be connected to the Germanic word belt, a name used for two of the Danish straits, the Belts, while others claim it to be derived from Latin balteus ( belt ).

Baltia also might be derived from " belt " and means " near belt of sea ( strait )".

In general, boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, or spitting.

They are prohibited from holding the ropes for support when punching, holding an opponent while punching, or ducking below the belt of their opponent ( dropping below the waist of your opponent, no matter the distance between ).

Depiction of a soldier wearing a plumed pot helmet, Hallstatt culture Bronze belt plaque from Vače, Slovenia, ca.

Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").

The semiarid sahelian zone, or Sahel, forms a belt about wide that runs from Lac and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures eastward through Guéra, Ouaddaï, and northern Salamat prefectures to the Sudanese frontier.

The Guinean forest-savanna mosaic belt extends across the middle of the country from east to west, and is the transition zone between the coastal forests and the interior savannas.

* 204 Kallisto, an asteroid from the asteroid belt

: Lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October ; occasional flooding ; periodic droughts

The Marlins were asked about ace Dontrelle Willis after his Cy Young caliber campaign in 2005 amid the " Market Correction " but rejected an offer from the Detroit Tigers that would have landed them now 4 × MLB All-Star and 2011 AL MVP pitcher Justin Verlander and five-tool outfielder Curtis Granderson, both prospects with some major league experience under their belt.

: Lies on edge of hurricane belt ; hurricane season lasts from June to November

Three-quarters of grits sold in the U. S. are sold in the South stretching from Texas to Virginia, also known as the " grits belt ".

The original Gatling gun was a field weapon which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose ( no links or belt ) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper.

Honduras lies within the hurricane belt, and the Caribbean coast is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes or tropical storms that travel inland from the Caribbean.

These swords were hung from a belt using the scabbard-slide method, which kept the weapon vertical.

The industrial belt ran across the country from southwest to northeast ; by 1900 the four industrialised counties of Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and Ayrshire contained 44 per cent of the population.

However it should be noted that the name of the Belts might be connected to Danish bælte, which also means belt.

An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.

Weight can be better distributed by wearing a belt over the mail, which provides another point of support.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

With this work under his belt, Bessel was able to achieve the feat for which he is best remembered today: he is credited with being the first to use parallax in calculating the distance to a star.

The country is divided into four geographic regions: A lowland belt running north to south behind the coast ( Lower Guinea ), which is part of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion ; the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands ( Middle Guinea ); the northern savanna ( Upper Guinea ); and a southeastern rain-forest region ( Forest Guinea ).

After doing so, he takes back his horses, but before leaving, he hands over his belt and bow, and gives instructions as to which of their children should found a new nation in Scythia.

During a later battle with the Right, he is fitted with a power-dampening belt which actually helps him control his abilities.

The classical ( low-eccentricity ) belt is home to at least three dwarf planets: there are two known larger objects currently outside the Kuiper belt which probably originated in the Kuiper belt.

In the south, military exchanges between Israel and the PLO led Israel to support Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) in an effort to establish a security belt along Israel's northern border, an effort which intensified in 1977 with the election of new Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.

From Jabal al Akhdar, Cyrenaica extends southward across a barren grazing belt that gives way to the Sahara Desert, which extends still farther southwest across the Chadian frontier.

The Al Hajar Mountains, which form a belt between the coast and the desert from the Musandam Peninsula ( Ras Musandam ) to the city of Sur at Oman's easternmost point, formed another barrier.

Asteroids which approach it have their eccentricity slowly increased until they become Mars-crossers, at which point they are usually ejected from the asteroid belt by a close pass to Mars.

The elastomeric belt absorbs motor vibrations and noise which could otherwise be picked up by the stylus.

These are louvres which allow ventilation for service equipment and obscure the structure's belt trusses.

Some also use an elastic band which has clips on both ends, and keys are placed between them as an integral link in the band, which may then be considered a belt.

However, the subsequent discovery of the Kuiper belt, and in particular of the object, which is larger than Pluto yet does not fit Bode's law, have further discredited the formula.

This dust is likely to be the result of collisions between objects in an orbiting debris disk, which is analogous to the Kuiper belt in the Solar System.

Not only had he no canteen, but he lacked even the belt to hang one on.

He had thought that the suggestion of taking it himself would tip the colonel in the direction of serving his own order, but the slip of paper was folded and absently thrust into the colonel's belt.

After an expert examined autopsy photos and noted what he thought might be the imprint of a belt buckle on Byers ' corpse, the elder Byers revealed to the police that he had spanked his stepson shortly before the boy disappeared.

As of 2012 there was extensive exploration for commercially viable copper and gold deposits in the mineral belt in northern Haiti but on operations had begun on the numerous and extensive promising propects.

By the end of his contract with producer Hal B. Wallis, Lewis had several productions of his own under his belt.

During the Invasion of Poland, Riefenstahl was photographed in Poland wearing a military uniform and a pistol on her belt in the company of German soldiers ; she had gone to the site of the battle as a war correspondent.

The Samara engine was mostly designed and produced in-house, had a new single overhead cam design and was driven by a more modern rubber belt.

As a young man he had thanked the mountain for saving his life and prayed at the foot of the mountain sprinkling offerings and bowing nine times to the east with his belt around his neck and his hat held at his chest.

Agricultural tractors built up to the early 1950s generally had a belt pulley.

Some had straps or rope sewn to them for carry, but many either were tucked into the belt or set on the ground before battle to allow easier access.

Battery life was a much bigger issue before handheld systems had built-in rechargeable batteries ; gamers needed either a constant supply of six AA batteries, or a rechargeable Ni-Cd battery pack that was sold separately and clipped on a user's belt or onto the back of the Game Gear using the clips and screw holes.

The bridegroom – who was not drunk and thus not impotent, but was sober as always – first had dinner in the messes, then would slip in, undo her belt, lift her and carry her to the bed.

The company had to confine its operations to the belt it physically controlled, from Ceylon through the Indonesian archipelago.

The Army of the North had achieved several small victories at towns such as Ham, La Hallue, and Amiens, and was well-protected by the belt of fortresses in northern France, allowing Faidherbe's men to launch quick attacks against isolated Prussian units, then retreat behind the belt of fortresses.

In 1911, Benjamin Foulois had the cavalry saddle shop fashion a belt for the seat of Wright Flyer Signal Corps 1.

In the mid-1970s, 3-point belt systems such as Chrysler's " Uni-Belt " began to supplant the separate lap and shoulder belts in American-made cars, though such 3-point belts had already been supplied in European vehicles such as Volvos, Mercedes, and Saabs for some years.

The three point belt was developed by Nils Bohlin who had earlier also worked on ejection seats at Saab.

In NASCAR, the 6-point harness became popular after the death of Dale Earnhardt, who was wearing a five-point harness when he suffered his fatal crash ; as it was first thought that his belt had broken, some teams ordered a six-point harness in response.

In 1973 Volkswagen announced they had a functional passive seat belt.

Because many automatic belt system designs compliant with the US passive-restraint mandate did not meet the safety performance requirements of Canada — which were not weakened to accommodate automatic belts — vehicle models which had been eligible for easy importation in either direction across the US-Canada border when equipped with manual belts became ineligible for importation in either direction once the US variants got automatic belts and the Canadian versions retained manual belts.

Most astronomers refer to a region of small planets beyond Neptune as the " Kuiper belt ", since Kuiper had suggested that such small planets or comets may have formed there.

If there had been no Government program, if the old order had obtained in 1933 and 1934, that drought on the cattle ranges of America and in the corn belt would have resulted in the marketing of thin cattle, immature hogs and the death of these animals on the range and on the farm, and if the old order had been in effect those years, we would have had a vastly greater shortage than we face today.