Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treadmill, and the slowdown button does not work. The only advising we receive our first year is from a residential proctor (except for those privileged few who have nonresidential academic advisors). The likelihood of sharing any common academic interests with this person is slim. Many of us are therefore left running around frantically in April to assemble the concentration form and plan of study...
...There was a time, after all, when "tune in, turn on, drop out" was the mantra of a generation. People have forgotten how influential his International Foundation for Internal Freedom (pronounced If, If) was and how dangerous the government considered him. LEARY IS GOD was almost as popular a button on campus as peyote was in the mid-'60s. It wasn't just the kids who fell under the spell of Leary and LSD, but Establishment figures as well: Cary Grant, Steve Allen and musician Maynard Ferguson, not to mention TIME magazine founder Henry Luce and his wife, playwright...
...torn over time. Family members of adults who were killed, for instance, complain that their loved ones became virtually invisible as the media focused on the horror of the 19 children who died. "I am so tired of hearing about the 19 children," says Tina Tomlin, wearing a button with the picture of her smiling 46-year-old husband Rick, who was killed in the Murrah building. "There were 168 people killed, and they were all somebody's children. I can't even look at my mother-in-law before she starts to bawling...
Office hours or an obscure web site that a student has to go fishing for just won't help get more input. Instead, the council should have each member contact an assigned group of students via e-mail. This way, it only takes the simple press of the "Reply" button to register concerns, and the same "R" button for the council member to do some research and respond...
This year the first time you saw an actor who was sporting only an oversize silver button where a bow tie is normally worn, you may have surmised that he'd somehow lost his tie on the way over. As this actor had made his way past the cheering crowds toward Oprah Winfrey's microphone, you guessed, a particularly impressionable fan swooned at the sight of him, cut herself on the curb and was saved from bleeding to death only by his quick action in whipping off his bow tie and pressing it into service as a tourniquet...