Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ichi',"went the countdown last week, "four, three, two, one." At "zero," Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone aimed a glove-covered finger at a button in his Tokyo residence. The prime-ministerial pressure detonated a dynamite charge 440 miles north of Tokyo and 780 ft. beneath the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Honshu and Hokkaido islands. The blast blew away the final rock separating two pilot tunnels under the strait that have been boring toward each other for the past 18 years...
...directed toward the postage stamp-size pictures lining the bottom of the screen. These are Lisa's "icons," graphic symbols representing such everyday objects as a trash can, a clipboard, file folders, a calculator, a battery-operated clock. By pointing the arrow at an icon and pressing the button on the mouse, the user triggers an action. He might use the trash can to discard the first draft of a memo. The clipboard is used as temporary storage when moving information from one place to another. File folders are for long-term storage...
Translated by Lee Fahnestock; E.P. Button; 468 pages...
...computer by telephone. When Langevin left his Washington job, his access code was canceled, but he had arranged to learn the code number of an unwitting colleague. On his very first day at his approximately $60,000-a-year job at Hutton, Langevin punched the number into a push-button telephone and was immediately connected to the Fed's computer...
...enjoyable evening. THE NOTEBOOK: Forward Joe Carrabino still hasn't returned to Cambridge. The 6-ft., 8-in junior is still recovering from a back injury and may miss the entire season. McLaughlin, always an ardent supporter of the Harvard University Band sported an "I love the Harvard Band" button last night in protest of Army's refusal to let the band perform at halftime of this year's Harvard football game...