Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buck a trend, Japan's electioneering politicians have unanimously jumped on the Kennedy bandwagon. The week of Kennedy's victory, Japan's incumbent Premier Hayato Ikeda staged a TV debate, frankly modeled on the Nixon-Kennedy debates, with his two opponents. Socialist Saburo Eda and Democratic Socialist Suehiro Nishio. Convinced that it was the New Frontier that had won for Kennedy. Ikeda promised: "My Liberal-Democratic Party will have precisely such a New Frontier program in Japan." In response. Socialist Eda insisted that it was he, not Ikeda, who was just like Kennedy -"flexible and progressive...
...acquisition of $180,000 instead of an expected $3,000,000 from the Program for Harvard College has caused "grave disappointment" to University Library officials, Paul H. Buck, Director of the Library, has asserted in the Annual Report...
Increased use of the facilities has resulted in a demand for a "spiraling income" to support the Library, "upon which the quality of teaching and research at Harvard is clearly dependent," Buck wrote. He pointed out that a $226,000 increase in this years budget was only half the increase required to cover all the specific needs outlined in the preliminary budget estimate...
...Buck explained that the lack of sufficient funds has resulted in a constant reappraisal of the Library's activities and policies. As an example, he cited the decision to suspend publication of the Harvard Library Bulletin with the last issue...
...needed $400,000. Taking over one afternoon, Greenburg marched into San Antonio's three commercial TV stations, raised $150,000 from them. To keep the drive going, he climaxed his weekly telecasts crying: "If you want $1,000,000 worth of education, send me a buck...