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...tread water, take off your pants or jacket, tie a knot in the legs or sleeves, button them up and swing them through the air so that the arms and legs fill with air. Then twist the open ends so that the air stays in and you have a life preserver...
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Button, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn; TIME...
...Better Button Up." The sound of rifle and machine-gun fire was loud and close by. Casualties were lying in the dust with medics bending over them. The medics had red crosses painted on the sides of their yellow-and-green camouflaged helmets; otherwise they looked the same as infantrymen...
...began seeing dead Japs along the roadside, many of them with their clothes blown off. Over the radio: "Hello, Louis, this is Jack-better button...
...what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused mental damage so severe that "Soviet authorities feared it would be permanent." Some children cry at the slightest disappointment - for example, when they can not button their coats. Others cry when they see trinkets such as earrings, because they are reminded of their parents who wore such things, and whom they had seen die of exhaustion...