Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a volcano sucking in human sacrifices, Eastlake's war engulfs everyone who comes near it-including two trustful flower children wandering through the jungle with a guitar and a button reading "I have a dream." Even they are not pure victims. Love and life may perhaps be enough for women, Eastlake sadly suggests. But men all share a terrible curiosity: What beast -or possibly what hero-will they turn into at their moment of private reckoning with...
...canvas was about to collapse all about us, but nobody quite knew how to panic. There was simply no way to characterize the crowd; the militants must have all been up front because they didn't seem to be in evidence. In the midst of everybody else was a button-hawker with a large, black-felt-covered board, dotted with all colors and sizes of peace buttons. A few kids stood around him trying to decide which buttons they wanted to buy. I swear, but even after the gas really started, that guy still stood there. He must have been...
...weekend began with a sense of futility. You could ignore it if you took pleasure in the gas station attendant in New Haven who was wearing a peace button or the toll collector who flashed the "V" sign as you went...
Though they know little of the workings of their own operation, all of the button sellers have memorized and repeat in monotonously pious tones the fact that New Mobe is $70,000 in debt and needs its dollar per button to survive...
...camera-designed and built by Eastman-Kodak-is simple and automatic. To take a picture, the astronaut just presses a button. He carries the camera attached to a cane, so that it is only a few inches above the surface when the pictures are taken...