Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate student at the University of Miami confessed that he was "just a little relieved to see the bridegroom is so white. I guess it would have been different if he had been a real black buck." Certainly elements of old-style racism tinged the reaction, especially in the South. Many standpatters have argued that the Kennedy and Johnson administrations have wanted nothing so much as the "mongrelization of the races." To them, the Rusks are knowing agents of this conspiracy. Yet the response was muted almost everywhere. Although sex is the most emotional racial bugaboo, an Atlanta advertising...
...against suspiciously speculative activity among professional traders, which Martin finds "disquieting." Last week, as market averages reached new highs, Martin sent up another warning rocket, telling the House Ways and Means Committee that there is "an unwarranted spree in stock prices and a lot of people chasing a fast buck...
Problems & Solutions. Criticized from all sides for being either too easy or too tough on rioters, the chiefs were tired of being whipping boys, and their mood mirrored the edgy morale of line cops back home. Partly to buck up that mo rale, Lyndon Johnson made a surprise visit to the Kansas City convention, told his audience that "much can explain - but nothing can justify - the riots of 1967" (see THE NATION). The chiefs applauded him enthusiastically, but it was the chance to mingle and exchange problems and solutions that gave the I.A.C.P. meeting its real value-a value that...
...public schoolteacher is fed up with his longtime pose as a professional too polite to hit the streets in a fight for a reasonable wage. This year he is proving as tough in the pursuit of a buck as the school electrician and plumber, who have long outpaced him in pay. The U.S. taxpayer is sick of soaring school costs. The conflict between these viewpoints has created one of the most strife-ridden school openings in years. This week nearly 2,000,000 schoolchildren from Baltimore to East St. Louis, Ill., face the possibility of extended summer vacations because...
...same, she is no beauty, largely because of her mouth-or rather, the buck teeth that make her look like a young Eleanor Roosevelt. "I smile with my hand over my mouth," she explains, "so no one will see the spinach." Her figure, in the simile of one friend, "is like a cup of tea-all the sugar went to the bottom." Partly because of indiscriminate eating of heavy Russian food, she has lately swelled to 132 Ibs. (at 5 ft. 4| in.), twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into...