Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hiqh-Button Boots. The son of the bailiff of a large farm in the Santa Comba Dão country of central Portugal, Salazar studied for a law degree at the University of Coimbra and stayed on to become a professor of economics and finance. In 1928 he became Finance Minister with extremely broad powers to control the economy and government as well, but he still looked like a provincial schoolteacher in his bowler hat and high-button boots...
...ghosts of Dresden, that totally vengeful, ultimately useless crime of conventional warfare. But Dresden was a massive effort, involving 2,750 bombers. The essential terror of the nuclear bomb is that it is so small, so sudden and so simple to deliver-with the touch of a button...
...wife-swap clubs in California." With Yeatsian gloom, he adds: "It breeds odd personalities, too: children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at 50 are children of twelve. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have pop . . . and op ... and art cinetique . . . There are Playboy Clubs and homosexual movie theaters . . . amphetamines and tranquilizers . . . anger, affluence and oblivion. Much oblivion...
...protect some of the more exposed SA-2s and restrict Israeli jets. The SA-3s are manned only by Russian crews. But even though Egyptians crew the SA-2s, Bar-Lev claimed that "in every battery we have a few Russian officers who maybe do not push the button, but who make sure the button is not pushed before or after it should be." Bar-Lev was particularly concerned because the SA-2s appeared to be equipped with better acquisition and guidance radar systems than previous models. In addition, the missiles that brought down the Phantoms were fired...
This morning when I was over the target, I was pulling the stick to start my bombing run. I saw the thing and evaded. It fell away. I got on target and locked on. Another one came toward me. I pressed my bomb-release button and then evaded the second missile. The bombs dropped, the missile slipped by, the bombs exploded on target, and I moved on home...