Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMERICAN SCENE A calypso beat in button-down New England...
...sleeping where he could and stowing away on trains. "It taught me a lot," he says, "when I spent the night in sheds with poor and homeless people." Yeltsin's empathy for ordinary folk is one of his most remarkable political gifts. A woman construction worker sporting a Yeltsin button in Moscow's Pushkin Square said, "He's the first Russian leader I can understand. He speaks in a way that simple people can grasp...
...fairly straightforward bombing. The key technology is a simple laser detector on the nose of a glide bomb that is electronically linked to adjustable fins in the bomb's tail. All the pilot has to do is point a pencil-thin laser beam at his target and push a button. A stabilizing computer keeps the beam locked in place, freeing the pilot to pitch and roll as necessary to evade enemy fire while the bomb rides along the beam's reflection, flying into the target like a moth to a flame...
...kind of asleep at the wheel and wakes up when there's an alarm, and doesn't know which button to press, so he goes eeney-meeney-miney-mo and hits a button and does avert a meltdown," Simon said. "He becomes a hero and feels guilty about it. It's not a politically charged episode...
Yale band member Jed V. Goldstone had on his chest a large button that said "Harvard" with an even larger screw stuck through it. Goldstone said he does not play an instrument, and that his role in the band is essentially wearing his costume...