Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign visitors at his dacha outside Moscow, where he could display his prowess as a hunter, and at his luxurious summer home in Yalta, where the Olympic-size swimming pool was shielded from the wind by thick glass walls that glided back and forth at the press of a button. Early on, he spoke to state visitors of his interest in splashy automobiles. Taking the hint, they plied him with examples of the motorized best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce, a Citro...
...after knee surgery, finally saw playing time last night. Pike, usually apt to argue with referees, had only praise for last night's officiating Yale, which brought the bare minimum number of players, actually got half its scoring from a pair of late-season walkons...Back-up goalie Adam Button made a save for the Crimson in the final period...
...scorers, Steve Munatones, also had penalty trouble and was thrown out in the third period. But the Crimson attack was well-balanced: Co-Captain Dave Fasi, who missed last week's loss to MIT, scored six goals, while freshmen Mike Rogers and Dave Chao notched five apiece and Adam Button scored four coming off the bench, on the way to the 25-14 final...
...pilgrims flock to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots that look...
...loose change. This compilation of syndicated columns is refreshingly freed from its predecessor's videoese syntax and pictorial tricks. Here the humor is literate, affecting and familiar. Rooney rolls up his sleeves, hits his 1920-model Underwood, and writes about his native suburbia with the exhilaration of a button-down surrealist...