Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, was "to force the police state to become more and more visible, yet somehow survive in it." At Grant Park on Wednesday afternoon, he both succeeded and failed. The police action against the demonstrators triggered the Hilton march, but Rennie-despite his short hair, scholarly spectacles and button-down collar-was literally busted, and later took nine stitches in his split scalp. Yippie Guru Abbie Hoffman, 32, cadged dinner from his four police tails, yipped up a storm in Lincoln Park (where he passed out phone numbers of cops and city officials for telephonic harassment), and was ultimately arrested...
...home. A Manhattan staffer receives calls on three phones, screening out "the drunks and ranting nuts." The twelve or 15 most pertinent questions are put through to the show's moderator, Del Shields. In case the conversation gets libelous or licentious, Shields can push a cut-off button, but he has not yet had to use it. Though the discussion is frequently fiery, about the roughest language used to date was Rap Brown's dismissal of civil rights legislation as "intellectual masturbation...
...connote the emergence of Negroes as a cohesive political force, the building of black economic muscle, the recognition of an Afro-American cultural identity. To many black leaders, that is the only realistic meaning of the slogan. Last week the National Urban League, long attacked by militants as the button-down, archconservative wing of the civil rights movement, embraced Black Power-in its achievable definition...
...screen, threw two switches that opened the bomb bay and armed the load of 108 bombs. Over the radio, the impersonal voice of a SAC ground controller announced "seven minutes to 'hack' [bomb release point]." The count droned on until at hack, when Harris punched a black button and 30 tons of high explosives cascaded toward the ground more than 30,000 feet below us. There was no shock, no noise, no sight of explosions. Only the impersonal voice of the controller: "Bombs in the target area. That was a good run, fellows. Have a nice ride home...
...pilot light for kitchen stoves." To prove that his predictions are not as far-out as they seem, Schawlow has built and will soon market a laser eraser, a model of which he has already attached to his own typewriter. When he makes a mistake, Schawlow merely presses a button. Zap! The laser completely vaporizes dark (and thus light-absorbing) typed words or individual letters, leaving the paper unscarred and with no rubbing to be brushed away...