Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many code names that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North attracted during the Iran-contra affair ranged from the heroic "Good" to the cryptic "B.G." (for "Blood and Guts") to the macho "Steel Hammer." But the most significant, and bizarre, could turn out to be "Belly Button." That improbable monicker was the name for a Swiss bank account containing $200,000 in Iran-arms profits that were set aside for the former National Security Council aide and his family...
News of the account, opened in the name Button, gave yet another twist to the Iran-contra hearings on Capitol Hill. A growing body of evidence indicates $ that North was not merely a reckless Marine who was acting purely for patriotic reasons in setting up the secret contra supply network and trading arms for hostages with Iran. Instead, last week's testimony suggested that like many of his private-sector companions, North may have been driven in part by a profit motive...
...diary privately, the presiding judge ruled that it contained no information relevant to the defendant's case. By that time, however, Levin's character had been impugned and the anguish of her family amply replenished. Her grief-stricken father has appeared in court wearing a JUSTICE FOR JENNIFER button...
There is supposedly a new blues revival on now. The full house that came out to see Hooker at the Channel on Friday certainly suggested that somebody'd been spreading the word, bringing in the usual Boston button-down types with a sprinkling of brooding hippies and underage punks. This was the first hard evidence I'd gotten of the blues being revived, aside from reading magazine cover stories on "Great Black Hope" Robert Cray. (Blues has recently developed boxing's problem in reverse: a formerly all-Black domain with no up-and-coming young Black players...
...weighing "too much" (exact poundage is now a state secret), he has run through every diet conceived by man, from cottage cheese to rice, and been defeated by them all. But he struggles on good-naturedly in the White House mess. He wears button-down shirts that rumple spectacularly, and he is still followed by the old gag that somebody must wrinkle his suits before he dresses for work...