Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were clamoring for the same concessions other landlords had won. This week the House's hold-the-line-in-D.C. bill landed with a thud in the Senate. The man on the spot was the District Committee chairman, Delaware's down-the-line Republican C. Douglass Buck...
...have made a mess of the world," observed Novelist Pearl Buck, "what a mess women have made of men. Women do nothing because they know nothing and care nothing. . . . The time has come to enlarge the home and include the world...
...West Coast entrants, Washington and California, were not what they once were in the days when they monopolized Poughkeepsie. Navy's shrewd Coach Buck Walsh saw only one likely rival; he told his crew: "Watch Cornell...
...departing for extended weekends on July 4 can keep their plans with easy consciences according to an official announcement by Provost Buck yesterday. "No classes will be held by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Saturday, July 5," he ruled...
...only safe hours to hit the Keith Memorial Theater these days. At any other time you are likely to run into a foul little film called "Child of Divorce," whose buck-toothed protagonist is the most trenchant argument yet for birth control. But though the main feature involves another set of buck teeth, this time attached to Miss Tierney, they are fairly easily forgotten in the whimsical flow of this Anglicized Twentieth Century Fox picture...