Word: buttoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Electronic sensing devices placed throughout the University account for the capability of these boards to give such quick readings at a distance. When the operator in Langdell pushes a button to get the temperature of the hot water running through the pipes of Mallinckrodt Laboratory, he is actually selecting the circuit which connects an indicator on the board to a special thermometer inside one of the Mallinckrodt pipes. Data boards by themselves are not fully automatic: the operator must decide what readings to take and then press the buttons. Also, a data board does not signal breakdowns in the system...
...Panic Button. "I dearly like taking people away from their television sets," Crandall says. But he drives them back when they irritate him. When one man kept calling Harry Truman a traitor, Crandall finally roared, "Shut up!" He handles 50 to 60 calls a night, and the telephone exchange tots up another 10,000-15,000 "busy" signals, presumed to be callers that can't get through. Both his voice and his caller's are fed onto tape, with a built-in seven-second delay before the sound goes on the air. This gives Crandall time...
Showing up in Edwardian splendor, the moustached Souvanna Phouma sported a pearl stickpin, Homburg, and carved Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...
...point, Johnson pulled up near a small gathering of cattle, pushed a button under the dashboard-and a cow horn bawled from beneath the gleaming hood. Heifers galloped toward the car while photographers clicked away and the President looked pleased. As he drove, Johnson talked about his cattle, once plunged into what one startled newswoman called "a very graphic description of the sex life of a bull...
Capes still enchant most Cambridgiennes, and fortunately an attractive variety has appeared on the market in recent months. ADELE BRAGAR has a narrow, waterproof cape with detachable epaulettes and big brass buttons in khaki poplin ($20) and in lovely blue corduroy. ($24). Most stores carry several good styles, but GERTRUDE SINGER'S cape collection remains unsurpassed in Cambridge. In Boston, FILENE'S is showing some striking models in pastel wools with shoulder button closings...