Word: button
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chairman of U.S. Steel's finance committee, could, or would, say why their figures were lower.* And what, asked O'Mahoney, did Fairless consider "a fair return"? Hedged Big Steel's Fairless: "Well, that is a variable . . . The profits are not something you can push a button and say that is it." Snapped O'Mahoney: "Well, that is what we are fearful of, that some of the big fellows here can push a button and get the profits...
...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
Bessie and her children do not stop and wait. They accept not only a flood of numbers but also elaborate instructions (often in the form of holes in a paper tape). When all the facts are in, the operator presses a starting button-and the machine quickly does the rest...
...black official limousines rolled down 21st Street, driving well beyond the main entrance of the Department of State to turn sharply down a side ramp into State's naked concrete loading basement. Burly Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stepped from his Cadillac into a private elevator, punched the button for the fifth floor. Across the basement General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dressed in civilian grey, got out of his car, strode briskly across the floor and got into a second private elevator...