Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Button, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
...Better Button Up." The sound of rifle and machine-gun fire was loud and close by. Casualties were lying in the dust with medics bending over them. The medics had red crosses painted on the sides of their yellow-and-green camouflaged helmets; otherwise they looked the same as infantrymen...
...began seeing dead Japs along the roadside, many of them with their clothes blown off. Over the radio: "Hello, Louis, this is Jack-better button...
...flame-throwing infantryman presses a push-button switch to get the spark that ignites hydrogen near the nozzle. This acts as a pilot light, ignites the fuel oil emerging under pressure from nitrogen. Back of him are three tanks: a small one for gas pressure, a pair of larger ones for fuel...
...what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused mental damage so severe that "Soviet authorities feared it would be permanent." Some children cry at the slightest disappointment - for example, when they can not button their coats. Others cry when they see trinkets such as earrings, because they are reminded of their parents who wore such things, and whom they had seen die of exhaustion...