Word: bucked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Some of his most trusted advisers argued that the Japanese condition would mean little in practice-certainly not enough to justify a postponement of peace. Chiang Kai-shek presumably let him know that China sided with him against any concession to the Emperor. Britain's Attlee passed the buck. Stalin's views, if any, were known only to Truman...
Still the "CC." Relieved of Foreign Ministry routine. Premier Soong could now devote more attention to China's galloping inflation and related problems. But though T. V. had won great administrative power, he still had to buck the political machine run by the Kuomintang's right-wing "CC" clique, led by the brothers Chen Kuo-fu and Chen...
...officer training camp, it was converted after V-E day into a campus for 4,000 G.I. students. At the start, there were only 3,611, including 270 officers, 14 nurses, and eight WACs. They ranged in age from 19 to 46 (average: 22½) and in rank from buck private to lieutenant colonel. Their average education amounted to one year of college...
...profession. They speak of education and in particular of vocational education. That too is the job of our public and private institutions. It is not the realm of the military. They speak of rearing the national youth to its responsibility of citizenship. Everyone knows that the Army is a buck-passing institution from the highest general to the lowest pfc. But few realize that buck-passing is the refusal to accept responsibility. Citizenship is not to be learned in an institution where responsibility is something to pass on to another and initiative in action something to be shunned...
...Dean Buck and his Committee, with the advantage of time and funds which were afforded them, have gone further than compromise. They have found a new educational theory, to provide a "substantial intellectual experience common to all Harvard students." They have defined two varieties of learning, distinguishing General Education from Special "not so much by subject matter as by scope and outlook." and they have determined to give every Harvard student adequate training in both varieties