Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pravda cocked an eyebrow recently at the Great Sewing Machine Scandal. A decade ago, the Soviet Union was short on sewing machines, so Marxism's planners pressed the "on" button. Immediately factories began competing to see who could turn out more sewing machines faster. Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins. "We have more than 150,000 machines accumulated here," complained a worker at the Podolsk Sewing Machine Factory, "and still we are making thousands of them every...
...skip one night, I wake up with such a headache"). Unwilling to peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with his tunes, Walston drives her away and brings home a substitute, Kim Novak, who heads the navel armada at a local juke joint known as the Belly Button. Through a series of vinsavory miscalculations, punctuated by a parrot that squawks "Bang! Bang!" all too frequently, Martin gets the wife, the song plugger gets Kim, and Kim gets...
...security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns out, have penetrated the British delegation, and so, in his inexorable way, does Tiger. The last Red head is blown off and "splashed up against the wall" expeditiously, and a grateful President can take his finger off "the red button...
...Johnson-Humphrey ticket, and the President was host at a party for reporters accredited to the White House and their families, numbering 4,000. And one chilly night he appeared hatless and coatless before several thousand people gathered on the Ellipse, south of the White House, pushed a button turning on 5,000 red and white lights on a 72-ft. Adirondack white spruce, a gift of New York State...
...John Kopeck dials a seven-digit number on the phone, hears a recorded voice say: "Thank you. Your Bellboy party will be signaled." In a matter of seconds, Gold's midriff radio, dubbed Bellboy by its manufacturer, Western Electric, sounds off. Unless Gold stops it by pushing a button, it will keep on keening for eight hours, or until the battery runs down...