Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that afternoon, Karandas Chandrakrishma, Instructor in Indian Studies, emerged from his office in Weld Hall and paused teetering on the steps of that noble pile to button his raincoat. It was an action which caused in him a troble grief. First, because it gave him time to reflect, as he always did, that the University had given Ali Ahmed, graduate student in Indian Studies, an office in Boyiston Hall, and him, Chadrakrisha himself, only a garret in Weld. Second, because it reminded him that he was wearing a cheap American raincoat. Finally, because it urged upon his flickering consciousness...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. A brass-button burlesque starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss...
There are 70 eating places on the grounds, not counting, an elaborate Food Circus with 60-odd food bars. "Beefsteak saute with button mushrooms, filet of sole Marguerite and crab Louis are nonchalantly dispensed by bill-changing vending machines in 18 kiosks. Elsewhere, visitors may buy fish and chips, Mongolian steak, Belgian waffles, Cyrillic-alphabet soup from Yugoslavia, and Seattle scones...
...launch (even in daylight) and jointly keep track of the plane's position above the surface of the earth. When a target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...
...glue a bunch of bolts and metal together and go off on a space flight." Nonetheless, beneath everything this absorbing show's guests have to say emerges the staggering fact that they talk about going to the moon as if they planned to push a button and get off on the 40th floor...