Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the use of sign language and push-button computers, apes have shown they can use symbols to generalize, pose questions and express moods. These experiments contest the claims made by thinkers from Descartes to Noam Chomsky that man's uniqueness can be found in his unusual ability to think and talk in abstract terms. What is it, then, Leakey asks the reader, that makes man different? What special quality does the human brain possess...
Richard T. Button '52 did not attend the dinner. "He was going to be here, but he had to go to Florida to tape a television show," John Arnold '54, former President of the Varsity Club, said. Button was honored for his superb skating performance which won him an Olympic gold medal...
...mysterious green button bearing only the initials FCBCD blossomed on the chests of some White House staffers last week. The letters, it was happily explained, meant, "For Carter Before Camp David." And that meant, in turn, that the Carter bandwagon was rolling along faster than ever. At one point, Presidential Aide Hamilton Jordan literally skipped down a White House corridor, chortling, "Hey, you all hear the vote? You hear that vote...
...collars on my button-down shirts so I can wear those cool nehru jobs that everyone seems to be strutting around in these days. I know all the words to every Bee Gees song. I eat so much yogurt I have little cultures running through my veins. I cried when Elvis died...
...Oval Office, she helped persuade the President to raise beef import quotas in June as a way to drive down meat prices, and she is lobbying for legislation to keep coffee and sugar prices low. Of her new publication she says: "It's not pabulum. It's no WIN button...