Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is the Los Angeles Coliseum, packed with roaring, screaming fans watching a National Football League championship play-off game. The star is Jim Brown, once the most celebrated fullback in professional football. But is Brown bucking the line? Nope. This time he's lining up the buck. Aided by a gang of professional goons-Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Gates, Donald Sutherland-Brown is robbing the Coliseum...
...manager and led the New Hampshire delegation to the Democratic National Convention. In New Hampshire's second district incumbent Republican Louis Wyman won a tough race with James Keefe, former administrative assistant to Sen. Thomas McIntyre. Keefe had strong support from the Democratic organization but was still unable to buck the Republican tide...
...FRANKLY," said H.D. "Ted" Doan, president of the Dow Chemical Company, "we're trying to make a buck...
...relaxed place to take a bottle of booze and a date for some quiet conservation. It costs half a buck, and the abundant free soft drinks and the graceful decor (that maybe only Dudley House could provide) are easily worth that price. The performers are worth much more...
...charged, witty camera, Zeffirelli has managed to make the play alive and wholly contemporary without having had to transfer the action to a modern setting. Romeo and Juliet appear afresh as two incredibly articulate but believably, agonized teen-agers whose turf happens to be Quattrocento Verona. Too young to buck the Establishment-the Italian city-state with its machinery of epic feuds and rituals-they are finally undone by their passions. Death enlarges them when they abolish their parents' hate. They become, as Juliet's father puts it in the play's epilogue, "the poor sacrifices...