Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alvin York is an irreverent young buck who punctuates his grinding labors on a rocky farm with spells of boozy hell-raising and gunplay. Love of Gracie sets him hankering for a farm of his own. His painful efforts to earn enough money to buy the land end in his being diddled out of both land and money...
...President's desk like a range of mountains. For months the President had delayed and stalled, trying to avoid asking Congress to extend indefinitely the draftees' one-year term of service. When time began to close in on him, he still avoided direct personal leadership. Unwilling to buck the line himself, he sent in General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, to carry the ball and get the lumps. Good Soldier Marshall pounded down the field, through center, off-tackle, around the ends. The watching President couldn't believe his eyes: there was, in fact, no real...
...broke with George Cohan because Sam Harris would not buck the actors' strike in 1919, but both men described the parting as amicable. In the ensuing years Sam had nearly 30 resounding hits including Rain (1922), Icebound (1923), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), Dinner At Eight (1932), You Can't Take It With You (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), Lady in the Dark...
Meanwhile, rich ASCAP decided to split a million-dollar melon (cut largely out of lush past earnings) among its membership for the second quarter of 1941, just to buck up morale...