Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elevator that was to take them one flight up to the West Hall, the elevator operator panicked. The sight of Jackie Kennedy, elegantly coifed and exquisitely draped in a pink strapless creation, was perhaps too much for the man. In any event, his thumb froze on the STOP button, the elevator never got off the ground, and the Kennedys finally decided to walk upstairs...
Such an agreement, which would leave the ultimate decision when to push the button in U.S. hands, must be based on a mutual understanding of Western Europe in the U.S. Although this country has not obtained it to date, such an understanding can be created...
Gridley looked up and realized that his time was almost up. He walked across the hall and asked the attendant to buzz him into the reading room. The old man pushed a button, electric locks disengaged, and Gridley walked on through, past the austere scholars and the academic secretaries clicking away at their silent typewriters. He waited for another buzz and then took the bridge to Widener, re-entering the stacks at Level 1, where he took the elevator up beyond Level 6, beyond the Church History section and Migne's Patrologia Latina with its 200-odd volumes, finally exiting...
Berlitz & Button-Downs. Some U.S. businessmen, of course, have been looking abroad for quite some time: Coca-Cola, Caterpillar Tractor, National Cash Register and Colgate-Palmolive get 40% or more of their sales abroad, and their trademarks are as recognizable abroad as at home. The armies of American executives who became global commuters in 1962 helped to increase the volume of international air travel by 20%. From Scotland to Singapore, the button-down collar was as familiar a symbol of the footloose businessman as the carpetbag in the Reconstruction South. To welcome the new invaders, the Banco di Roma issued...
Each group of ten Minutemen is controlled from a concrete capsule, mounted on springs, covered by some 60 ft. of earth. At identical consoles sit two officers. They stare at dials and lights that warn of any defects in their birds. If warned, the men merely push a button and a taped voice controlled by a computer tells them precisely what is wrong...