Word: buttoning
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...Hulking, button-eyed Big Bill Hutcheson has ruled the carpenters for 20-odd years. He has fought fellow chieftains in bitter internecine wars. The case which was taken to Supreme Court was a quarrel over whether his carpenters or Brother Harvey Brown's machinists should install machinery in Anheuser-Busch's brewery...
Some of these manufacturers have got rid of their button-sewing machines, would have to retool if slide fasteners were cut off. Some of them make products (like trick keycases, children's snowsuits, etc.) to which slide fasteners were a sine qua non. To replace all fasteners would, Talon estimates, take 1,300,000,000 buttons a year-and on Arthur's desk were orders from companies he had never heard of before, which wanted fasteners because they were already having trouble getting enough buttons...
...touch of a button her blond, urbane skipper, Captain Olaf Mandt Hustvedt, gave her the works. Her answer was a belching, searing flame, the shattering roar of the heaviest broadside ever fired by any warship of any Navy on any sea. All nine of the 16-in. guns in her main battery, tripled in turrets each of which weighs more than many a destroyer, answered the Old Man. Ten of her secondary battery of 20 five-inchers simultaneously blasted the night. North Carolina took it as it came, shook her head and plowed...
...Moscow radio, with its best button-nose deadpan, last week reported that the following story was current among German soldiers...
...Button-bursting with pride, mother and friends sent the letters on to Canadian newspapers which published them. Roy's exploits were confirmed by a letter from "Air Vice Marshal Dollard" to his mother, dramatized over the air by Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Soon Buckley was Canada's most popular, most publicized air hero...