Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese defenses, "Buck" Buckner knew, would grow even stiffer; tough fighting was bound to come. But he knew, too, that Japan's best chance to turn back this invasion-the period when the first troops were coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting...
While Boston public schools will be closed today, according to an announcement broadcast last night, Harvard and other colleges in Boston and vicinity will hold classes as usual. A. Calvert Smith '12, secretary to the Corporation and secretary of the Board of Overseers, conferred with Deans Hanford and Buck and with department chairmen by telephone last evening and reached the agreement stated...
...formal request by the War and Navy Departments that the School be kept open that long, for even after the war there will be a need for trained officers who can be used for occupation. What action will be taken on this request is still up to Dean Buck, who, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, has general supervision of the School for Overseas Administration...
...Hunter, 124, (RPI) defeated Ken Amnenworth, 122, (H) by decision; Tony Taylor, 123, (H) defeated Buck Davis, 126 1/2, (RPI) by decision; Jim Rafil, 132, (H) defeated Mel Allen, 135 1/2, (RPI) by decision; Francis "Rosie" O'Grady, 132, (H) defeated Leo Trupin, 134, (RPI) by decision; Jack Beinschrotch, 156, (RPI) knocked out Hugh Courtwright, 153 (H) in first round; Leo Col. 161, (RPI) defeated Jay Dotson, 155, (H) by T.K.O. in third round; Art Clyde, 161, (RPI) defeated Rusty Hankin, 163, (H) by decision...
After compiling 4,559 pages of testimony for guidance, the Federal Communications Commission last week got ready to shift many a tenant of the U.S. airwaves. So doing, FCC laid some bets on the Buck Rogerishness of the postwar world...