Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...like seven-league boots, striding over the world with low-calorie root beer and Texas steaks in the galley, gathering Prime Ministers around him as he worried about Viet Nam, presiding above the clouds from his automatic chair that went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added...
...fairness, if the computer had an aperture down which martinis could be poured. The valiant human attacker has such an aperture. Nevertheless he has forced a crack in the dreaded robot's pawn fortress, and he sends his queen slashing in, punching "H3 to H6" and the encode button on the keyboard. The red light-emitting diodes of the machine's digital display flicker for about 30 seconds...
...asserted that a technological revolution was upon us, he advocated helping it along and shedding the shackles of the past, that is, industrial society, as quickly and painlessly as possible. In short, Toffler is indeed a revolutionary. And revolutionaries are in short supply these days, even if they wear button-downs. Americans, ensconced in their conservative ways, need people like Toffler to prod them out of their listless intellectual stupor...
About 20% of the convention delegates, mostly from the South and the West, were "profamily" conservatives who opposed some of the more controversial proposals. There were three "hot button" resolutions?those covering the ERA, abortion and lesbian rights?on which the delegates were sharply divided. With other resolutions, even the conservatives were more inclined to agree. On few issues was that unity more convincingly displayed than the minority rights resolution that was drafted by conference organizers but later rewritten and toughened by the one-third of delegates who were black, Hispanic, Indian or Oriental. The revised version was carried with...