Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayday! Mayday!" "I've got it," Kimes called as he took over the contols. Miller, reacting automatically as a result of hundreds of simulated emergency sessions, punched a button under the flashing red light, releasing fire-extinguishing chemicals into No. 4 engine. Meanwhile, Kimes was desperately trying to keep the plane level...
...general 5.5% growth is not all gravy. Latin America's population increased 3% last year, thus cutting the per-capita increase to 2.5%. Still, that figure is right on the button with the Alianza's targeted rate and is more than twice the average 1.1% pace that prevailed from...
...radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane down to the proper landing point on the runway. The human pilot merely controls the plane's roll and yaw. Only at touchdown does he push a button on the steering column to disengage the automatic system...
Then the group entered the building that was designed to "lead Harvard architecture out of the dark ages." A workman led them into an elevator and pushed the button for the ninth floor. Nothing happened. "Dirt," the workman explained. "This is the worst part--cleaning it up." "Perhaps," a white-haired lady sighed, "it will look better when it's tidy...
...must be close to 40; he was bulky at 2151 Ibs. (to Clay's 206), was 2 in. shorter, and about as nimble as a Gila monster. Somehow he had persuaded quite a few people-including the underworld characters hanging around his training camp -that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year. Oddsmakers made him the 6-5 favorite, and in Miami the word was that one mobster bet $30,000 on Liston...