Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light in the crowded Lions Club in old Key West. The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died. The speaker was a stumpy, smoothfaced man who was as far away from his home in Everett, Wash., as he could be. His Adlai Stevenson-era button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer to your thinking than all of the other candidates. I'm the different candidate." The sponge fishermen, tradesmen, retired...
Barnstorming through Florida, Presidential Candidate Hubert H. Humphrey had a serendipitous confrontation with one of Tampa's more compelling voters. Cielito Lindo is a dusky, almond-eyed Puerto Rican farm-girl-turned-stripper with 38-24-36 to show for herself. The candidate personally pinned an H.H.H. button on Cielito's well-cloven chest. "Come over here," he said, munching a sandwich and patting the seat next to him. "Tell me, what is your real name?" Then, while press cameras clicked, he did not exactly steal a kiss...
...think the pin setter deserves some credit," an elated Robbie "Real Thing" Eggert told television personnel filming the match for Saturday's "Here We Bowl Again." "I just hit that white button, the pin setter came down, and boom, I had ten pins," Eggert explained. "I just wish I'd caught on earlier." Earlier, Eggert had thrown 28 gutter balls...
...names of all 47 Charlie Chan movies (we came up with 39). Others are eager to let us know when they think that they have detected an error. Often they are right, but occasionally the "corrections" themselves need further checking. When the origin of the Pop art smile button was at issue, 40 readers claimed credit-individually...
...first glance, nearly everything seems wrong. The lips are too thick and the nose is too flat, a porcine little button. For a woman who stands only 5 ft. 5 in., the bust is perhaps too heroic, while the stomach is-well -flabby. Yet somehow all the defective parts work together to make Dyan Cannon Hollywood's newest sex star. "She has the skin touch," explains Producer Mike Frankovich. "It's a vibrant sex that goes over so strongly it sets off most...