Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sport is a lackadaisical game of croquet. At a recent black-tie party, the vigorous wife of one official rushed up to him, ripped open his shirt and squealed, " 'Errveee, I thought everybody nice wore undershirts!" Hervé managed a weak grin, slunk off to a corner to button...
...ball and the ball's impact on screen enables the computer to calculate length of drive and probable roll within five yards. One of a bank of 30 lights behind screen is activated by ball and shows on screen as ball actually landing on fairway. Player presses a button and another picture appears taken from approximate position of ball. Player squints at the flag, picks his club, and swings again. On reaching the green, player putts into real hole from indicated distance. Then he presses the button again, and the screen shows him the fairway from the next...
...Crooner. At 54, she looks her age, with sunburst wrinkles around her boot-button eyes. But she wears her years with indifference. And age has very little to do with her appeal. She was 21 when she started and brought the house down with I Got Rhythm. But she was never a sex object. She was mostly the hearty hostess, amused by the raucous comedy of life and essentially detached. Her manner suggested that sex wasn't everything, that exuberance could give vitality to even the middle-aged and the homely. She palpably could never see herself...
Born. To Bob Newhart, 34, button-down comedian, and Virginia Quinn Newhart, 22, onetime TV extra: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles...
...shrewd airman who has lifted his line from a $945,000 loss in 1947, when he took it over, to earnings of $7,278,000 tor the first nine months of 1963. While he introduced such imaginative sales devices as the champagne flight and the napkin with a button hole, Drinkwater is fundamentally an efficiency expert. "We're great disciples of Mr. Parkinson," pipes Drinkwater, boasting that there are only three levels of supervision from his own job down to the mechanic servicing a plane outside his window. Though Western's routes span from Calgary to Mexico City...