Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paunchless, wind-seared Admiral Leahy, whose 65 years look like 50, accepted. His administration of Puerto Rico, which is fast becoming the U. S.'s No. 1 Caribbean naval & air base, had been effective. He was fully aware of U. S. defense problems, could be counted on to buck up the harassed Vichy Government against the demands of Conqueror Hitler...
Aimed to make the Freshmen "feel at home," the H.S.U. jamboree has been labelled the Stag and Doe dance. It will cost the Yardlings one buck...
...time to lie down and bleed. Then he can't run away." > "You boys with your bows & arrows, you be careful. I don't want any of those broadheads [arrows] to hit my broad bottom." Despite these Woodycisms, last week's bowmen bagged nary a buck. One got pretty close, had his bow bent when the deer turned broadside...
...pushed doughnut sales with one of the screwiest publicity campaigns in advertising history. It founded the National Dunking Association, claims for it more than three million members (including Congressman Jennings Randolph, Mrs. Martin Johnson, Martha Graham); holds dunking contests, gets dunking testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts one Friday the 13th...
...times stronger. Bent like a jackknife in a huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color is not paint but inbred in the plastic. Fenders of this Buck Rogers material, though not quite unbreakable, withdraw from minor collisions with lamp posts, etc., like unhurried rubber balls...