Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Button upheld his men's figure skating supremacy by winning his second straight world championship in Paris yesterday. Button has not been beaten in two years...
Freestyle skating, Button's specialty, was the field in which the Massachusetts Hall resident most outshone his opponents. He went through his repertoire of runs, mid-air twirls, high splits, and prodigious leaps without a slip...
...Dick Button '52 took a long lead yesterday in his defense of his world's figure skating championship in Paris. Button amassed 638.1 points in the figure skating competition to move far in front of the 12-man field. The second phase of the championship contest-free skating, which is Button's specialty-will be staged tomorrow...
...close for two and a quarter periods in the Freshman-Newman Prep basketball game last night. Then someone, maybe Coach Lloyd Harper, pushed the crucial button and the Crimson rolled to a 63-46 victory...
...does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...