Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Have you looked at any seniors recently? They're dressed pretty nicely, in button-down shirts, khakis, black pants, etc. But they have bags under their dull, glazed-over eyes. Their brows are often furrowed. You ask them what is wrong? "Recruiting," they reply...
Meanwhile, the governor lit up the "Inaccuracy" button when he talked up the Texan Patient's Bill Of Rights. "You can't gag a doctor," he claimed. "False Statement!" flashed on the screen. Perhaps the machine was being too literal. I would think it pretty tough to stuff a handkerchief in the mouth of the average physician. Incidentally, every time Gore said the words "Dingell-Norwood," his "Cognitive Level Indicator" spiked up 4 percent. Mmmm...
...question about morality exposed weaknesses in both candidates. Gore talked about Tipper's mid-'80s reaction to "some awful lyrics" on a rock record that daughter Karenna brought home. "Tipper hit the ceiling," claimed Gore. The Truster responded by hitting the "False Statement" button. Maybe it was judging him literally. Maybe Tipper didn't quite touch the beams of the living room. It seems to operate on a brutal standard of truth. Perhaps it depends on the meaning of "ceiling...
Although Harvard heard its alarm clock at halftime and promptly stirred to action, the Minutemen hit the snooze button and didn't wake up until the game was nearly over...
...recognize, of course, that radio is a very different format from MP3: there's the music-on-demand aspect, for one, and there's the fact that MP3s are full recordings while to get a proper recording off radio requires immaculate timing as you hit the "record" button...