Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the hospital, caporegimes and "button men," or soldiers, the lowest-ranking Mafia family members, prowled the corridors near Colombo's room. No one was allowed near the room without the O.K. of Vincent ("Vinnie...
...will run Action is the member of the Administration whom the President considers best able to talk to the young: Joseph Blatchford, 37, head of the Peace Corps since early in the Administration and a unique figure in Nixon's button-down Washington. His sideburns are long, his hair falls over his shirt collar, and on occasion he has been seen sporting a fringed leather jacket. One morning during the Mayday demonstrations, Blatchford emerged from his Georgetown house into a crowd of militants. They watched suspiciously as he donned a white helmet and straddled his Yamaha 275 motorcycle. Unrecognized...
With the possible exception of Secret Service men, no employees in the nation are as well known for their square appearance as the men of IBM. Most of them wear pretty much what was in style two or three generations of computers ago-dark and unshaped suits, white button-down shirts and quiet, narrow ties. Lately, however, some staffers have begun to acknowledge the revolution in men's fashions by showing up for work in loafers, striped shirts and flared trousers. To Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM's chairman, the whole trend was clearly unacceptable...
...risk of appearing arbitrary," said IBM's chairman, he nonetheless had decided to give each manager "the responsibility to establish and enforce conservative dress and appearance standards." Watson did not dictate a specific uniform, but to most employees his message was clear: back to the button-downs. The sartorial retrenchment at IBM, so the story goes, was inspired by a young man in hippie clothes who happened to catch Watson's eye one day in a bank. When Watson asked a bank official why he permitted employees to dress that way, he was quietly informed that...
...Your account of the Laos Operation Lam Son 719 [April 5] was less emotional and biased than most, until you button up your "report" with the unfair quip citing, as an old Army tradition, "There always is a scapegoat." How would you handle such a failure in leadership? The Army that you tear away at protects your right to do so-and has done so faithfully for almost 200 years...