Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SEVERAL Black men have been sighted around Harvard's campus in black berets and Army-style boots. The same men are seen in sections wearing button-down Oxford shirts and black ties...
There is one of Roscoe Turner's sleek racers in the shop. Turner was a hero to Depression-ridden boys. He flew in pink jodhpurs, gleaming calvary boots, brass-button tunic, and sported a needle-pointed waxed mustache. He carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side...
...never see the Baixada, they will feel its effect -- for the fear of crime colors the character of the entire city. Women avoid wearing necklaces and earrings. Drivers run red lights at night, lest they be held up at gunpoint while stopped. Some cars are equipped with a hidden button that cuts off the gas line, so that a thief can travel only a few blocks before the engine stalls. In the absence of reliable police patrols, neighborhoods band together to hire private armed guards who demand identification from visitors. "There is more fear now than ever before," say sociology...
With the push of a button at the new Ataturk Dam last week, Turkey's President Turgut Ozal cut the flow of the Euphrates River to Syria and Iraq, his country's arid downstream neighbors, by 75%. The month-long diversion will enable Turkish engineers to fill a reservoir that will be used for irrigation and hydroelectric power...