Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seed by Pearl Buck...
Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "The morale of the people is good when they are busy, excellent when they are very busy and poor to middling when they have nothing to do but think about the morale of someone else." In Congress, buck-passing the pension bill while Singapore fell, morale was very poor indeed...
When his Pulitzer Prize was announced, the then Assistant Professor of History was relatively unknown. The authorship of his book, which developed a wide popular appeal, was attributed to Solon J. Buck, now National Archivist, and even to Pearl Buck. Among the notes of appreciation he received was one from Margaret Mitchell, whose novel of the horrors of the Reconstruction contrasted so sharply with Buck's objective study of the healing of the wounds...
...Pittsburgh Courier," Negro daily, denounced both of them because of their presentations of the race problem in this country. But as Buck wrote then, "Once a people admits the fact that a major problem is basically insoluble they have taken the first step in learning how to live with...
Music and sports have always played their part in his spare time. One of his prides is an extensive collection of American folk music in which he does not hesitate to include the blues. He smiles and confesses, however, "I don't know anything about jazz." In high school Buck played second base on the ball team until his eyes forced him into track, where he continued running the middle distances throughout college. Now he devotes three afternoons each week to the Faculty Fistball Class in the Sargent Gymnasium. He still retains an interest in baseball and sticks...