Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a northeast wind finally blew down the gulch, Boyer pressed the button. A cloud of grey smoke rose up with a ball of fire at its heart; out of it spouted flashes of light like giant Fourth of July sparklers. Observers heard a loud bang and felt a modest shock wave. As the cloud began to dissipate, three Air Force bombers swooped into it, collecting air samples. Then men wearing respirators and full safety suits stepped cautiously within 200 yds. of ground zero. Kiwi had disappeared. Nothing was left on the seared site but the railroad car with...
...said, however, that Washington lacks exuberance. It has been supplied by more than 5000 Texans, some of whom have swaggered into the capital with cowboy boots, ten-gallon hats, and at least one tiara that says "Howdy, I'm from Texas" in lights when its wearer pushes a button. More than 3000 visitors jammed a coffee hour given by Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.) in a tiny Capitol Hill room yesterday morning...
...kits were to contain five or six kinds of cookies, including brownies, oatmeal cookies, and special "brainpower" cookies, crackers, peanut butter, raisins, fruit, a panic button, and for 50 cents extra, a special "Knowledge Hammer," designed by an Italian scientist, for wedging facts into the brain. Similar kits have reportedly been sold in 22 colleges across the country...
...tall A. You'll enjoy the deep down satisfaction ..." A Radcliffe girl bounces up to me, her face flashing red on and off with the A-sign. "Hey," she gaily cries, "coming to the Glee Club concert in the Yard?" I see that she is wearing a huge button. It says, "I'm out for honors--are you?" All the way up Mass. Ave. there are posters that say, "An A a day keeps the Dean away...
...with the full texts of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, selected Faulkner, and the collected works of Erskine Caldwell. They programmed the machine with biographies of key characters. They set it for 1947 in rural Georgia, turned the sex dial to "low," and punched the button marked "1,000 pages." The highspeed printer began to chatter...