Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right on the button, at 8:20 p.m., the huge Lockheed L1011 jetliner swept out of the evening darkness and touched down at the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport near Taipei. Flight 801 from Tokyo was the first plane bearing the blue and white colors of Pan American World Airways to land in Taiwan since 1978; less than 24 hours after its 113 passengers had disembarked last Wednesday, it was at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China. In Peking, China's Assistant Foreign Minister summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires and delivered...
...listening to Walter Mondale tell a California convention of Democrats that if elected he would right now, today, get Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov on the hot line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies in the sky. "I'm just not going to run that way," he said...
...Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has mounted an extraordinary volunteer effort. Says Governor Scott M. Matheson: "The Mormon Church has the best grapevine in the world. One phone call to the church triggered the quickest network of activity I've ever seen. When you push the button, people come out in droves." Items...
...Boston College, students recently held a rejection party, limited to those who could produce a turndown letter from a prospective employer. No one there was tactless enough to ask, "What are you doing in September?" And one senior wears a button with an inscription that answers the question for many seniors across the country this spring: YES ... I'M A SENIOR. NO ... I DON'T KNOW AND DON'T ASK! -By Ellie McGrath...
WIDENER LIBRARY officials pushed the panic button last month. The seemingly infinite edifice is running out of shelf space and. "Books will be on the floor" unless something is done soon. Charles Montalbano supervisor of the Widener stacks, predicted Library officials have yet to decide on a plan of action...