Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local and international nouveaux riches, who don't know why, when or how to smash dishes and who, as you state, measure merrymaking's "success by the depth of the debris." Zorba would have smashed only one dish or glass-but with style. Spending no drachma or "buck" either...
Many legislators and officials disagree. "We are all at fault-the employee, the employer and ourselves in government," says Esther Peterson, the Johnson Administration's Assistant Secretary of Labor for Standards. "I'm tired of this buck passing. It's time we did something together about all this." Congress may well enact new coal-mining legislation at this session, but passage of a more general industrial-safety law looks less likely. Last year the Johnson Administration pushed for legislation that would have empowered the Secretary of Labor to issue mandatory health and safety standards and to enforce...
...horrors, though, the traditional road, as it is loved and hated, will probably survive as long as Broadway theatre does. No matter how much he has lost early in the evening, the gambler will stay at the crap game until he has blown his last buck. And, like the gambler at the casino, the producer will grab at every last chance he can get to recoup his losses. Each day on the road is another last chance
...sometimes suppose is going into absurd projects-though too much is. Money is being spent on programs that, by comparison with priority needs, are secondary or of relatively minor importance. Someone is always hurt when a program is cut, but given the need, both the President and Congress could buck the political pressures to trim them this year...
...classic of criminal jurisprudence. Sirhan attracted three of the country's most successful lawyers: Los Angeles' Grant B. Cooper and Russell E. Parsons, New Yorker Emile Zola Berman (see box). The prosecution's three-man team is led by Chief Deputy District Attorney Lynn "Buck" Compton, former U.C.L.A. football star and World War II hero. Presiding is Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker, 69, who plans to retire in July. During the course of the first three days, the defense's tactics were clearly displayed. These were to lay groundwork for an eventual appeal...