Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commenting on the action, Provost Buck declared that it was "Impossible" to work up three good sets of examinations and that dropping of the wartime expedient would mean better tests generally...
...accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
...remote-control milkman who delivers cans from a car. For builders, there is a construction set whose aluminum rods and plates can be clipped together into towers, windmills, etc. The carriage-trade ultimate is a British import: a $54.50 horse whose springs, under the weight of the body, will buck and carry a rider across a room...
Saturday morning Vag woke up late. As he pondered over whether or not he should buck the odds at Widener in the hope of getting a book, he noticed his two unsold tickets lying on the dresser. As he slow-motioned out of bed, it occurred to him drowsily that for every football game won there was a football game lost. As he combed his hair, he associated this concept with an essay he had read called "Compensation." Compensation or no compensation, he rebutted, dusting out his mailbox, Vag for one, has an insatiable desire for victory and a powerful...
...they did it was something to behold. Lacking brawn, they have to be nimble. And jack-nimble is what they are -and as well-drilled as the Rockettes. Michigan's sleight-of-hand repertory is a baffling assortment of double reverses, buck-reverse laterals, crisscrosses, quick-hits and spins from seven different formations. Sometimes, watching from the side lines, even Coach Crisler isn't sure which Michigan man has the ball. Michigan plays one team on offense, one on defense...