Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council last night authorized the sale of the booklet in its Phillips Brooks House office. In addition, the Special Committee on Housing announced its intention to consult today with vice-President Reynolds on the recent College rent hikes. The Committee has already contacted Provost Buck, Dean Bender, and Associate Dean Watson...
...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...
...York's Congressman Ellsworth B. Buck, after a visit to Bedloe Island, cried out that the Statue of Liberty "is disgraced and demeaned by the inexcusable neglect and squalor about her," announced that he would seek a congressional appropriation of $750,000 to beautify the grimy grounds around the statue...
...Princeton and which is now being revived with considerable success there by Charlie Caldwell. Clee O'Donnell, 1946 Crimson captain who played first-string wingback against Chappuis, Wistert, & Company in the 35 to 7 rout at Ann Arbor in 1942, says Michigan ruined the Crimson that day on buck-lateral plays...
...Druten, carried by the nearby Johnston office, had to change his tactics. Instead of inexorably propelling Parker and Reagan into bed, he has to keep them out of it. When Reagan, a buck-sergeant on week-end furlough, retires on Miss Parker's living room couch, the camera carefully records the tightly closed bedroom door that separates the lovers. In the play, the curtain fell as the two embraced. But the idea is the same and most people will probably catch...