Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close of the Second Army's maneuvers in Tennessee (TIME, June 23, et seq.), Lieut. General Ben Lear's harshest words were aimed at "the chain of command"-meaning the officers through whom orders are transmitted from the C.O. to every buck private in the field. Said...
Popular with Washington bigwigs. Godfrey raises blue-ribbon horses, is an honorary buck private in the U.S. cavalry, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve...
...Buck Privates this dizzy pair of former burlesque comedians laid down a barrage of slapstick that was often agonizingly, if familiarly, funny. In The Navy their wacky, old-style fast talk gets snagged in the bony vocalizing of the Andrews Sisters, in the infantile attempts of Crooner Powell to get away from it all, in thousands of dollars worth of Universal props. Despite these expensive handicaps, sour-pussed Bud Abbott and outsized Lou Costello manage to resurrect many a guffaw for low-comedy devotees...
...Minister of Information. London corre spondents think it unlikely that Beaverbrook will do more with M.O.I, than play the super-coordinator. But for the first time in World War II they are hopeful of evening the score in their one-sided contest with M.O.I. censors, red tape and buck-passing civil servants...
Editor Doster, who was wounded in World War I, and holds several decorations, knows how to buck up the morale of the men in the remote, hard-driven Panama Coast Artillery Command (TIME, MAY 26). He puts on an act - every day in person, once a week in the lively, mimeographed pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth...