Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks like an ordinary beanbag, orange, pink or candy-striped. But when a concealed button is tapped, a battery-operated three-inch plastic disk turns on, and there is no turning off the heehaws for half a minute. "We sell happiness," says Sammy Kay, vice president of the Gund Manufacturing Co. and chief purveyor of the laughing bag, a brand of happiness that costs about $5. Gund has been putting laughing boxes inside stuffed animals since 1954, but it wasn't until this year that the company sent them out to go it alone. "Our first buyers," Kay reports...
...Richard Nixon, cornered and shouted at by most of the members of his Cabinet, his head swirling with confusion and paranoia, reaches for his briefcase and pushes the nuclear button. In 85 minutes all the major cities of the world have been destroyed...