Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...
...Manhattan's Chinatown held a baby contest, chose a king, a queen, a prince, a princess, a cutest, a best-costumed entrant. But the prize for the "cryingest baby" went begging Not one of the button-eyed contestants would let out so much as a whimper...
...longer in the hands of push-button extremists, no longer a competitive pursuit by Army, Navy and Air Forces of a will-o'-the-wisp, a research program has been coordinated under a civilian-dominated Joint Research & Development Board. By mid-1949 the board expects to have a working model of a supersonic, target-seeking antiaircraft missile (see SCIENCE), the first line of passive defense against rocket assault. Sometime after 1952 it hopes to have the ultimate in destructiveness: a supersonic missile which can be guided under full control to a target 3,000 to 5,000 miles away...
...Button, a government forecaster in Chicago, said that weather men could not explain why this year's cold, wet spring" had continued so long. No one has yet suggested that the rising clouds of three atomic bombs could have dispersed the proper performance...
...best known. His At the Back of the North Wind, and "Curdie" books for children, and such mythopoeic fantasies as The Wise Woman, Lilith and The Phantasies are still reread and remembered by those with a nostalgia for the turn-of-the-century world of nannies, nurseries and button boots. But it was Macdonald's Christian insight that made him great. Says Lewis: "Necessity made Macdonald a novelist, but few of his novels are good and none is very good...