Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will remain in his present offices on the second floor, south, as will Dean Hanford and the assistant deans of the College, with office rearrangement for the latter group on the first floor. Dean Buck's assistants will take the south wing of the third floor, from which Dean Leighton and the assistant Freshman deans will be moved to the first floor, north...
...document, he admitted, would be kept confidential for the present, because parts of it had been marked "top secret" and the rest "secret." Since the Navy insists that release of secret material "would cause exceptionally grave damage to the nation," all Secretary Forrestal could do was to buck-pass the report to Admiral Ernest J. King, with the request that he decide whether or not parts of it could be made public. At least one high-ranker sarcastically explained that the "damage to the nation" would be election damage...
Hollywood abandons its "we like everybody" policy in this movie, and the dangers of fascism are stated frankly and tersely. Pearl Buck's novel has been followed closely for the most part. The action 'begins in a peaceful pro-war Chinese valley; then, "the dwarfa" from across the mountains send over their deadly bombs. Shocked into realization of what is happening, the Chinese use all their skill and fortitude to ward off the enemy...
...fellas are all agog over the celebrity in their midst--a full-fledged cinema hero, no less. The object of the adulation, particularly from such cowpuncher worshippers as Pryor, Price and Rogers, is J. B. Morris, who in pre- war days was that grade-B hero, Gene Buck, the singing cowboy...
...concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker powerful enough to buck Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. (Wall Street could trace neither rumor to fact...