Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk, which was shunned by all until officials explained that it had been deodorized...
...Buck, Tom Ewen, John Boychuck, Amos Hill, Malcolm Bruce. Sam Cohen, Matthew Popovitch and Thomas Cacic were convicted by a Toronto jury last week of "being members of an unlawful association, and being partners in a seditious conspiracy...
...Communist Party itself has been on trial as much as these eight men." All except Thomas Cacic, who got off with two years in jail, will serve five years, will then face deportation. All property of the Communist Party in Ontario, the Court decreed, shall be confiscated. Said Tim Buck, leader of the eight: "What I did I did for the working class. I worked hard for the Party, believing I was right...
...front of me were my old comrades -Tim Buck, chief Communist organizer of Canada; Malcolm Bruce, whose house I had painted in those far-off days; Tom Ewen, special organizer in industrial disputes; Amos Hill; John Boychuck-all facing a possible sentence . . . for unlawful conspiracy and sedition...
...Buck-toothed King Carol of Rumania lay on his bed last week and his tonsils swelled and swelled, his head throbbed. Obviously there was no gratitude in this world, no sense of loyalty. His own brother, slack-chinned Prince Nicholas (the one member of the royal family who stuck by Carol in all his marital difficulties, the one of whom he has frequently said "I owe the throne to him"), had so far forgotten himself to marry a commoner! In bed with tonsilitis & bronchitis King Carol hoarsely croaked: "It's an outrage to the Hohenzollern Dynasty...