Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the surprise of jaws-ajar M.P.s guarding his London headquarters, admitted a casual visitor from the ranks, a buck private who simply said: "I'd like to see the General, if he's not too busy. Tell him I'm from Abilene, Kansas." The private was 23-year-old Walter Thorpe, once a hand on the Abilene farm owned by the General's brother. After 20 minutes of amiable talk about Kansas, the wheat crops and the Army, the General wrote a note to prove that it really happened: "Dear Thorpe...
Athletics. Flux and bewilderment under wraps. Club officials kept most of the players' draft classifications to themselves. The pitching staff looked fairly strong, including: Buck Newsom (4-F), Jesse Flores (Latin American...
...past master of the seven lively journalistic arts, Captain Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, last week gave a beautiful performance of buck-passing, ducking, bobbing and weaving. The cartoonist's pen was held by Clarence Daniel Batchelor, but the hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth...
...addition to President Conant, Harvard was represented by numerous Corporation members: William H. Claflin, Jr., Treasurer, Charles A. Coolidge, Grenville Clark, Roger I. Lee, and Henry L. Shattuck. Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, Jerome D. Greene, former Secretary to the Corporation and Secretary of the Board of Overseers, David M. Little, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House, and A. Calvert Smith, Secretary to the Corporation and Secretary of the Board of Overseers were other Harvard notables present...
...purpose. He saw nothing extraordinary in the small percentage of Liberty ship failures (3.23 reported by the American Bureau of Shipping), declared that ships built by master craftsmen in peacetime have suffered the same casualties. To keep their positions in convoys, the slow (10½ knots) Liberties often must buck mountainous seas while running at full speed instead of slowing down as they would normally do. Overloading with solid cargoes of jeeps and tanks is common. Too often the voyage home is made without sufficient ballast to keep the ships from straddling heavy seas that leave bow and stern dangling...