Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With some $4 million staked on a family-market product, Fox snipped out the footage-and thanked N.C.O.M.P. for the free advertising. But the studio could not help pointing out that the British-made Ulysses got away with displaying the bare bottoms of Buck Mulligan (T. P. McKenna) and Blazes Boylan (Joe Lynch). Well, yes, replied the Rev. Patrick J. Sullivan, N.C.O.M.P.'s director, there is a double standard-but not the one that Fox suggests...
...type of operation that obviously needed investigation in the late 1950s was the home-repair racket. Fast-buck operators would talk a homeowner into making improvements such as installing a new heating system or aluminum siding. The owner signed a credit agreement. The work, usually cheap and shoddy, got done and the fast-buck men sold the credit agreement at a discount to a broker, commercial finance firm or a bank. If too many angry and defrauded homeowners threatened, the company simply folded. It was a business particularly vulnerable to bad publicity, and Karafin and Scolnick said...
Romney was never one to buck consensus opinions or to favor unpopular policies, and this speech was no exception. His stand perfectly suited his apolifical image. Romney always has preferred to campaign on his pure character and successful administration rather than on policies, and he was very much in character when he stated at Hartford that the war should not be made a matter of partisan politics...
...disposal, he devotes most of it to the principal episodes: Stephen's soliloquy on the beach, Bloom's trip to Paddy Dignam's funeral, Bloom's brangle with the one-eyed Fenian in Kiernan's pub, Bloom's meeting with Stephen at Buck Mulligan's brawl, the nocturnal visit of Bloom and Stephen to Bella Cohen's brothel, Molly Bloom's magnificent end-spurt of soliloquacity...
...years. He first joined the Harvard administration after World War II as assistant counselor, and then counselor, for veterans at Harvard. In this position he helped advise some 9000 veterans returning to college under the G.I. Bill. At this time he also served as assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck...