Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...green silk tie round his neck and a withered green carnation in his button hole, Bernard F. Kelly Sr. stood outside Sands Variety Store Tuesday afternoon. "I wear them the whole week before St. Patrick's Day," Kelly, 49 years a resident of Southie, grinned...
...asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind if I use mine.' Later, he asked me to send him a transcript, explaining that he had pressed his pause button and lost the first 15 minutes." Happily, Clarke had not hit his pause button...
Once mastered, the computer phones can perform a variety of functions at the touch of a button or two. These jobs include: transferring a call to another extension, automatically placing a call at a set time, notifying the user when a previously dialed busy line becomes free, intercepting calls going to another extension, programming the phone so that frequently called numbers can be stored and then activated by using a three-digit number, and automatically redialing a previous call to the outside...
...heads, but their heads are the arena from which they will never escape. In Lone Star, a Viet Nam veteran named Roy (Patrick Tovatt) longs to escape from a changed Texas and preserve the past of his youthful high jinks. He loves to guzzle beer and maul his button-headed brother Ray (Leo Burmester), and worships his 1959 pink Thunderbird convertible. When that is totaled by Cletis (Peter Bartlett), the moment of maturity arrives. McLure's effervescent gift for black comedy makes both of these plays bubble with the champagne of laughter. - T.E. Kalem
...admirable boosterism pervades the city. A. Dwight Button, chairman of the Fourth National Bank, boasts that he has hired two senior officers away from Houston banks. Iowa-born Richard Upton, who runs the hyperactive Chamber of Commerce, points to Metropolitan Life, NCR and many other big companies that have opened branches in the area. Tom Pierce, Wichita's AFL-CIO chief, notes that despite its right-to-work law, Kansas' average hourly wage is fairly high ($6.11). Says Pierce: "If workers come here and stay for two or three months, you would have a tough time getting them...