Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white bungalow at the U.S. submarine base. He thumbed through newspapers, which headlined his troubles in the South. Even while he was away he had enraged the South's white-supremacy bloc by visiting the Virgin Islands' Governor William Hastie, a Negro (who wore a button proclaiming: "Forward with Truman...
...third time in a month, New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button out-darted Switzerland's Hans Gerschweiler to win the men's world figure-skating championship. He had already won the European and Olympic titles at Prague and St. Moritz. Defending Champion Gerschweiler did a pratfall during an Axel Paulsen in the free-skating. Three of the nine judges rated Button's performance 5.9 (perfect...
...maneuvering (up & down, right & left) a German V-2 rocket in flight. It was the most important advance in guided-missile technique the armed services had publicly admitted since the war's end. It was also a step-but only a step-along the road to a push-button...
...flags that mark the gates, skidded once and almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...
...first photograph of the depths of space. It will be a historic night - an extra-clear night with the sky velvety black and the stars, though bright, twinkling hardly at all. Hubble will go into the observatory after dusk, rise to the big round telescope chamber in a push-button elevator...