Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggested that Brigadier General Omar Torrijos might simply have been trying to walk on water. At least Panama's strongman added some excitement to ceremonies marking the partial completion of a dam and hydroelectric plant on the Bayano River last week. Shortly after pushing a button to drop the last of four gates damming the current, Torrijos, 46, suddenly plunged into the river-fully clothed in his national guard uniform, with military boots and a .45 automatic. He was immediately followed by a few loyal military aides, then by Panama's civilian Vice President, Gerardo Gonz...
...pointed to the girl sitting next to him. She did not smile or seem insulted, but acknowledged that she went to Commonwealth and said that her name was Deborah Alkema. Like Hershey-Webb, she had long blond hair and wore jeans but unlike him she sported no Udall button...
...University set up the Harvard International Office (HIO) to deal with these and similar problems. Its director, Jennifer Stephens, a British citizen with "I'm a Tory" button on her desk, believes the HIO serves as an effective liaison between foreign students and the various University offices they must deal with...
...countryside in the Midwest, fled his native New York for the open skies of Colorado, where he worked on a small newspaper in the remote city of Grand Junction. Woodbury returns there frequently when Windy City life begins to pall. In the same spirit, Manhattan-based Reporter-Researcher Sarah Button regularly retreats to her family home, a farm in Delaware. For Reporter-Researchers Peggy Berman and Susanne Washburn, who also worked on the story, happiness is the hills of Vermont, where both have weekend retreats...
...really proud of what we did and I will wear my Birch Bayh button until November," Mark Roosevelt '77 said, reacting to the announcement of Sen. Bayh (D-Ind) that he is "suspending" his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination...