Word: buttoning
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...strike order could be received at any moment, a key warrior breed will be the missileer, whose fighting environment, neither sea nor sky nor foxhole, will be a concrete blockhouse or an underground fortress. His ties to the world outside will be electric wires. TV screens, knobs, dials, microphones, buttons and bulbs. He will be the man who presses the button...
...business is canny Adolph Klein, owner of Townley Frocks, Inc., home of the late Claire McCardell, whose casual, comfortable "American Look" (no buttons that don't button, no bows that don't tie) made the U.S. the world's sportswear capital. When Claire McCardell died in 1958, Klein chose Brooks as the man with the best chance of filling the gap she left. Townley's sales have doubled since Brooks took over, now run to a handsome 40,000 or more dresses a year, retailing...
...Betty is now so far out in official Washington that she is almost back in again: tipsters favor her with items they know would be wasted on other, more timid columnists. But once Betty is on to a story, she pursues it with ruthless zeal, never blanching at button holing Washington's most imposing figures to check it out, rarely pausing to consider its consequences...
...scheme has the advantages of a built-in control. NATO's commander, an American, might be given the only power to push the button; or he might require the approval of the NATO Council or of the President of the U.S. But there is considerable doubt that the French would accept this plan; basically, they argue, it would change nothing...
...list of suggested summer reading for freshmen entering colleges from Occidental to Williams. At Harvard it is recommended for a social-relations course on "interpersonal behavior." An M.I.T. minister uses it for a discussion group on original sin. At Yale and Princeton-where Salinger, like the three-button suit, has lost some of his mystique as he becomes adopted by the outlanders -the in-group popularity of Golding's book is creeping up. At Smith, where Lord of the Flies runs a close second in sales to Salinger's Franny and Zooey, 1,000 girls turned...