Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women and children, including King, who dramatized the situation by refusing to make bond for four days. Still the Negroes came, singing "We shall overcome." In reply, Sheriff Clark pinned a button on his shirt reading "Never!" The city's mood grew ever uglier. Business in town fell off by 50% . From Governor Wallace there came no pleas for peace; he merely ordered new platoons of state cops to Selma and environs...
With the new IBM Market Data System, the process will be this: when an .investor calls in to ask for a stock quote, the broker can press a button on the base of his telephone and automatically connect into a computer at the exchange. He will then dial a four-digit number to identify which stock he wants to learn about (each of the 1,606 stocks on the Big Board has its own identification number). A recorded voice will instantaneously recite the stock's up-to-the-second price and volume, as well as its opening price...
...distinguished by the color of their eyes (redder going out than coming in) and whether or not they wore beards. One notable exception: Painter Larry Rivers, no opster with a brush, who blurred the vision by wearing two neckties-one red, one blue-and-white-striped-on a button-down shirt covered with dime-size green polka dots...
...Gerard Kuiper, head of the scientific team analyzing the evidence, was that the moon is coated with a frothy substance that "may hide many treacherous things." The University of California's Dr. Harold Urey argued on the other hand that photographs of several craters showed "a whitish button on the bot tom," suggesting that there is "very hard material underneath...
...Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...