Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuous thing." And the key to effective organization is getting a lot of people working enthusiastically at unglamorous precinct-level chores. One reason he avoids publicity, says Bliss, is that he does not want anybody to "get the idea that all I have to do is push a button and we've got the election won. Politics just doesn't work that way. Elections are won by thousands and thousands of people working together...
Only once did Khrushchev veer from world events. Leaning toward a group of pushbuttons, he avoided a big red button, pushed a black one. which almost immediately brought an assistant to his side. After a quick, untranslated conversation in Russian, the assistant left, and came back a few minutes later with a biography of Baldassare Cossa, a successful pirate who became Pope John XXIII...
Clapboard roof and a button door . . . People who squatted on Government land were engaged in a clumsy bet against bureaucracy, but they sang...
Tackles & Buttons. As the movies flourished, so did the hotel. Its patrons built their homes around it: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford set their Pickfair high in the hills above it, so did Barrymore, Harold Lloyd and Tom Mix. Will Rogers and Darryl Zanuck played polo nearby, stopped so often at the hotel bar that it was and is still called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room...
...well-paid Trojan horseman. These revelations are not so much jolting glimpses of human frailty as they are dismaying exposures of gimcrack theatrical carpentry. The motive of the raider (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) is typically yawn-provoking. As a youngster he waited on table for "polite boys" in button-down collars, and has venomously turned the tables ever since. Hero Cotten is a kind of airborne Hamlet who has always eluded company and husbandly duties by taking off in his Beechcraft Bonanza. How he comes to terms with his hated father's cast-in-bronze ghost in belated...