Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surreys, sulkies, buggies, phaetons, tally-hos, Meadowbrook carts, buck-boards, tandems, victorias and broughams are sell-outs at high prices...
Determined to oppose any dismissals whatever, the teachers denounced Mr. Wade's proposal. But the Board prepared to adopt it. Said its president, Ellsworth Buck: "There is not a single elementary school standee...
Warmest defenders of The Moon are Novelist Pearl Buck, Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, Dorothy Thompson, Book Reviewer Lewis Gannett. Gannett called the "totalitarian crusade" against the story "a depressing example of wartime hysteria." Said Dorothy Thompson: "I know dozens of German officers who were thoroughly mature when last I enjoyed friendly relations with them, and they were just like [Colonel Lanser].... The enormous power in Mr. Steinbeck's drama is that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold...
...Apple Tree last February. Two and a half months later, it led in sheet-music sales, radio performances and on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade. At New York University, music students voted it one of the two popular songs most likely to outlast the war (the other: Buckle Down, Buck Private). This week it was sweeping the Army camps. Its catchy chorus, which sounds like a swing version of Long, Long Ago, enabled soldiers to vocalize a theme that worries most of them more than the war. The song...
...Francisco fogs. Reporters learned that they were subject to the Articles of War (whatever they were), "in the event of military action." Rumors were fed by cancellation of Army weekend leaves and the request that OCD workers stay home on Memorial Day. The War Department increased the general buck fever by asking editors and publishers not to bannerize bombing raids, asking columnists to be casual...