Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewing what led to the siege of Bardia, the Libyan commander passed the buck neatly to Rome, laying blame for his defeat on lack of motor transport and of armored power. "For the purpose of economizing transportation some units covered hundreds of kilometres afoot. . . . We lacked only a complement of motor vehicles which, as you know, were pouring in from the mainland." "Pouring in" was probably a gross exaggeration, considering the work of the British Fleet, which periodically prowled across the Italian sea lane to Libya...
...John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by General Horatio Gates. Now Historian Knollenberg reviews the documents to conclude that no such cabal ever existed, that the long-lived rumor was due in part to Washington's touchiness, dictatorial arrogance, "disingenuousness," skill at passing the buck for his own mistakes. In part it was due to wild statements by ambitious young Marquis de Lafayette. If there was any Conway cabal, in short, it was a cabal against Conway. His enemies were Washington and his Army clique, and President of Congress, Henry Laurens...
Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped - dead from the first shot...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...
...vengeance was afforded the Engineers in their overwhelming victory in the Freshman contest. Except for a less by decision and a draw, the Tech first year men took every match. Bobby King pulled down the three points in a very one-sided tussle in the 145-pound class, while Buck Marshall wrestled to a draw in the 128-pound group...