Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centerfold picture of Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when he monitored church services on earth He sometimes complained of the lonely burden he bore as ruler of the universe. "The buck, as Mr. Truman said, stops here, ' God wrote. "And I mean it really stops here. I would give my omniscience to be able to pass just one decision on to higher authority...
Germans are so obsessed by titles that every etiquette book devotes at least one chapter to their usage. One, in fact, deals with nothing else: Das Grosse Anrede Buck-the giant book of proper addresses-which lists about 1,500 of the most important titles and explains in detail which ones take precedence over others. Often, the lower the title, the greater its length. The winner: Erster Hauptwachtmeister im Strafvollzugsdienst, which denotes the post of first watchman in the penal system...
With love goes responsibility, and it is here that the girls really shine. The four Meyer daughters have taken over the family's two horses, get up early to feed and water them. And, whereas boys often buck at mucking out stalls, notes Mrs. Carol Meyer, "the girls don't argue about it, they love the horses so." The same was true of Cindy McAfee in Louisville; her parents bought her an Appaloosa, Tonka, for her 14th birthday and were delighted when she took over all the chores. "It's wonderful for a girl...
...Year, Buck...
...Rocky fares no better at Oliphant's hands than the rest of the presidential contenders. A buck-toothed Bobby, playing Pied Piper, is not so much leading as being rushed by a frenzied bunch of women tearing at his clothes. A diminutive Hubert Humphrey, hat and cane gingerly in hand, is pushed on to stage center by a Large But disjoined paw from the wings. A frantic Dick Nixon, decked out as a magician, thrusts his arm into a hat and plucks out a hairy hawk clutching a bomb. "And voila," says Nixon, "we haul out a dove...