Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meant. Recently, the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported that the President's Citroen had collided with a milk truck at 5 a.m. in Paris. Last week it claimed that he is a security risk, too often out of touch with his Elysee Palace office and the red button that controls the force de frappe. ∎ Then for the first time, the nation's respected liberal daily Le Monde published some rumors, adding that the Elysee denied them all. Still, nobody denies that while Giscard's family lives at their house in the Auteuil quarter of Paris...
JUST BEFORE his first appearance on stage, Lenny Bruce threw up three times. A few minutes later the stand-in master of ceremonies at the Victory Club in Brooklyn heard the strains of his intro music and found himself standing in his one-button, bar-mitzvah blue suit, holding a microphone...
When President Ford began sporting his lapel button proclaiming WIN (for Whip Inflation Now), a Miami entrepreneur named Marvin D. Baida was quick to see the possibilities. But when he tried to peddle WIN pins for a quarter each, there were few takers. Then Baida had an inspiration: he started selling a 25? button that declared SIN (for Stop Inflation Now). The public took to SIN instantly: 60,000 pins have been ordered, and Baida has branched out into T shirts and bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU WANT...
...Michigan last week, Governor William Milliken was suggesting a more pointed alternative to President Ford's WIN button campaign. His version: BAC, for "Buy a Car." In a juxtaposition of imperatives that verged on contradiction, some Chrysler dealers were distributing bumper stickers proclaiming: WHIP INFLATION NOW. BUY A CAR. Top auto industry executives were pitching in with efforts of their own. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend declared "a new car is the best buy you can get in America today." Outgoing General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg, in a signed newspaper advertisement, once again made clear that what was good...
...find our economy and Government depressing enough at the present time, and I became even more discouraged after reading in Essay that "White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen was seen wearing his WIN (WHIP INFLATION NOW) button upside down, claiming that NIM spelled out NO IMMEDIATE MIRACLES...