Word: buttoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unreal. It's so wierd that this is actually happening, when we've waited for so long," said one support staff member, clipping a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) button onto her lapel...
...sessions take place in what looks like a family doctor's office, but with video cameras and tape recorders as the chief diagnostic tools. Upstairs, in a room decorated with children's posters of properly placed tongues, Brooks sits in front of a mirror. He puts a button-size plastic ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward...
Thomas and other skaters learned that avoiding athletic challenges can garner a woman the gold. Did Saturday night mark an advance in the sport of ice skating, as sportscaster Dick Button wondered? Not if woman's ice skating is to remain a sport. The Olympics, after all, are not the Ice Capades...
...that may be unavoidable, given all the styles currently available. Like cars, white shirts come with an array of customizing options, including button, snap or cutaway Windsor collars, as well as dobby weaves, textured herringbones and jacquards. Among the latest variations are snowy shirts with thin, widely spaced purple or teal stripes. Says Barbara Kirk, a men's-furnishings buyer for the Seattle-based Nordstom stores: "A plain white shirt isn't just a plain white shirt anymore." Nor is it cheap: at Wilkes Bashford, the price can reach $235 for a French-cuff Charvet shirt, made of Sea Island...
Long seen as a symbol of button- down regimentation, white shirts are back in style. -- No fuss, no muss: video pets are here...