Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomorrow night Petkevich will skate his specialty, the free skating, at War Memorial Auditorium here. When he was on ABC's Wide World of Sports this fall, announcer Dick Button called him "the most exciting free skater in the world...
...much interested in liberating the personality or reaching the inner man. They wanted to constrain the inner man with his ungovernable impulses. They wanted-let us admit it-to repress the personality. "The tyrant of individualism has forever been put down," boasted a 19th century Utopia called The Crystal Button. In a 1903 Utopian novel, Limanora, everyone is deliberately made to work too hard to have time to think about himself or his desires. Those who persist in the glorification of sensory pleasures are exiled to an island called Kloriole, which, perhaps not incidentally, sounds like a detergent. Today...
...rites at the White House, DAVID EISENHOWER (right) pushes the button which blows up ALBANIA (left). "It's lots more fun than throwing out the first ball to the Senators," he chirps...
...forever uttering inspiring words like "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." For him, a big night on the town was a twin bill at the Bijou and an extra-thick malted milk. He was the All-America boy. from his crew cut and three-button blue suit right down to his sweat socks and brown loafers...
...field is real only in the imaginations of the 15 men-one wearing a peace button-who surround it. In fact, it is a 5-by-8-ft. table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody...