Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court ruling. Not so the Socialists. "This court has replaced the parliamentary organ," said Socialist Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky. Socialist leaders hinted a nationwide rail and electrical strike if Otto tried to cross the border into Austria. "All we have to do," said Kreisky, "is push a button...
Kennedy's impact on Washington is seen in countless ways. Cigar sales have soared (Jack smokes them). Hat sales have fallen (Jack does not wear them). Bureaucrats show up at work in dark suits, well-shined shoes, avoid button-down shirts (Jack says they are out of style). The more eager New Frontiersmen secure their striped ties with PT-boat clasps-and seem not the least bit embarrassed. The most popular restaurants in Washington are Le Bistro and the Jockey Club, which serve the light Continental foods that Jackie Kennedy features on the White House menu. The less palatable...
...defense contractor, loses exact count of the division-strength army that Lockheed now uses to devise new products and processes to keep ahead of competitors-but the number runs to 13.000 or 14.000 scientists and engineers. Says Gross: "I suspect there's more science and engineering in a button today than there was 20 years ago." In, steel, Europe's new oxygen furnaces have outmoded the old open hearth, which is much slower and costlier, and forced many U.S. steel firms to begin installing the more efficient furnaces...
...Horowitz, their position is politically unrealistic, since even if "they accumulate data and feed them into a computer and then determine that such and such date would be the most propitious time for dropping the bomb on the Soviet Union, so what? We are not going to push the button anyway...
...years ago. Its material was a little special: it concerned the statutory rape, 160 times during 70 hours by a total of 53 persons ("the entire membership of the Werewolves, their younger brothers and friends"), of a girl named Bobbie Bedmer, who had become tired of working in a button factory. The interest in the story lay not in the event (which was treated for what it is worth as a documentary oddity), but in the girl's recovery of her innocence. Critic Lionel Trilling, a professor at Columbia and a great little-magazine man himself, could hardly believe...