Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon entering the basement room for the first time, one is struck by the bee-like buzzing on muted voices. Students, capped with Buck Rogers earphones, listen intently and then murmur into microphones which they hold before them. At the front of the room, tape recorders whirl; an instructor watches them and occasionally twists dials to discover how his proteges are fairing in their strange new world of a foreign tongue. The entire scene contrasts with the grim, grey exterior of the building; the lab itself is bright, cheering, and more like 1984 than 1859. And, at last, language teaching...
Fighting the back-to-work order issued by a lower court, union counsel Arthur J. Goldberg said that in enacting the Taft-Hartley law Congress "passed the buck to the Supreme Court to break strikes...
...hates most is "the new age, the age of the galoot, the fast buck, the something-for-nothing crowd," and he goes out of his way to give every phony he sees a piece of his sharp mind...
...workers, a beach resort, free junkets), his product the most racily advertised in the staid textile world. His most famed ad, captioned by himself and duly noted by the U.S. Post Office: a smiling Indian squaw rocking a tired brave in a bedsheet hammock, with the legend, "A buck well spent on a Springmaid sheet...
...Stretch a Buck...