Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrial Statesman. At South Bend, Paul Hoffman got to be a big shot. He and Studebaker Production Manager Harold S. Vance took over the company's management, as receivers, after President Erskine's attempts to buck the Big Three in the middle-priced field and to ignore the Depression landed Studebaker in the courts. By 1935 it was President Paul Hoffman and Board Chairman Vance...
Yacko and Day had been warned, along with every other U.S. ablebodied, draft-age father, either to find a war-essential job or else get into the Army. The warning did not affect Sheaffer. He had just been made a buck private...
Rickey did not choose to be buried. When the team started slipping, he got out the ax. Down it came on seasoned Dolph Camilli, Buck Newsom, Joe Medwick, Johnny Allen. When he was through pruning, only 14 of the 34 spring players remained. With few exceptions, other clubs could find no new material worth buying. In St. Paul, Rickey found 6 ft. 6½ in. First Baseman Howard Schultz; in Montreal, Outfielder Luis Olmo; in Durham, Outfielder Gene Hermanski. He brought in other youngsters. He asked 20,000 school and semi-pro coaches to name their best players...
Once again Hollywood has failed to depict one of the branches of our armed forces in a realistic light. From "Crash Dive" one might think that our submarine fleet operates on a Buck-Rogers-of-the 25th-century schedule. Fantastic is the word for it. Tryone Power is the swash buckling sub officer who leads his men through incredible danger to blast the enemy base into technicolored flames and gore. The plot is there, but in the usual and tiring mask of the eternal triangle...
...executive officer, Dentist Vaiden Kendrick, Charlotte's ace toothpuller (there was a rush of dental procrastinators to his chair when he announced he was leaving Charlotte). Charlotte also contributed several other doctors, two business managers-Captain Stanton Pickens, who used to work for the Coca-Cola Co. and "Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting to move nearer the front, the engineer of a train going the other way called: "Anyone from Charlotte, N.C.?" The answering chorus nearly knocked...