Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy debate in Parliament and tossed it into the lap of his old wartime cabinet colleague Winston Churchill. Britain's present plight in Germany, said Bevin, was the direct result of the "unconditional surrender" policy adopted at Casablanca by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winnie passed the buck in a hurry. The policy, he said, was all Roosevelt's idea; he himself had not been consulted before it was proclaimed...
Scornfully, Majority Leader Scott Lucas rejected the whole idea of passing the buck to the White House. Scoffed Lucas: "We should have the courage to reduce appropriations if we desire...
...anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more adult pictures. But the men from Hollywood did some buck-passing to the audience, too: the public perpetuates the star system, which keeps budgets high and originality at a low ebb; it sometimes passes up good pictures, e.g., The Search, and flocks to trash starring big names; it needles Hollywood for kowtowing to pressure groups, but never organizes to help...
...Saturday special luncheons will follow the annual AHC business meeting. Provost Buck, Dean David, Dean Fair of the Engineering School, and vice-Dean Livingston Hall of the Law School will speak at special group luncheons devoted to General Education, Business, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. President Conant speaks at the banquet in the evening...
...Provost Buck as chairman of the ceremonies introduced the speakers...