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A decision involving the real death of a real creature, not the press-button splatting of some alien or "terrorist" on a computer screen.
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This was followed by an interminable recorded message with innumerable press-button options.
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This was followed by an interminable recorded message with innumerable press-button options.
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What was presumably the control panel on the top of the box was singularly unimpressive and old-fashioned, reminiscent of a pre-war radio, with two calibrated dials, some knobs, a press-button and two orange hemispherical glass domes let into the surface.
Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986
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Even the press-button playback newscasts always available on specified channels of the TV wavelengths, when you adjusted the coverage to go at a speed to suit yourself, palled in Ward's estimation beside the solid, genuine feel of a newspaper.
Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965
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The action of the contact key will be understood from figure 84, where P is the press-button removed to show the underlying mechanism, which is merely a metal spring A over a metal plate B.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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B is a small battery, say two or three "dry" or Leclanche cells, joined by insulated wire to P, a press-button or contact key, and
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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An outbreak of fire can be announced by causing the undue rise of temperature to melt a piece of tallow or fusible metal, and thus release a weight, which tails on a press-button, and closes the circuit of an electric bell.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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"It sounds like someone being strangled," says a cheerful caption beside a press-button display which fills the reception area with the sedge warblers or skylark song.
The Guardian World News Martin Wainwright 2011
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{Pring Street U#lum Before snack time staff dissolved packs of juice crystals in two large, insulated black plastic boxes with press-button spigots.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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