Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger offense is not powerful. Princeton has only scored four goals all season. Forward Les Buck is the team's leading scorer with two goals and one assist. Doug Ditmar and Jack Hayes have one goal and one assist each...
Appearance is certainly never anything to be held against a rock 'n' roll star, but from the tops of their ducktail haircuts to the tips of their white buck loafers, these two look worse than any pair since the Everly Brothers. Bobby -- the little blond one who does that fantastic third "baby" in "Lovin' Feeling" -- kept calling tall dark Bill "eel" and "snake." The names are apt, but his voice gives you a few minutes when -- if you close your eyes or otherwise block out his perpetual smirk -- all can be forgiven. It is amazingly deep and seems to come...
...uniforms; the industry submitted bids for only half the total. Many textile men hesitate to compete for Government business, prefer selling to their old, reliable civilian customers, who are less likely to cut back orders without notice and are often willing to pay more than the Pentagon. To buck such peace profiteering, the Government has issued hundreds of thousands of "rated orders," which force manufacturers to sell to the armed services-at the Pentagon's price...
Aldrin's underwater training has been largely pointed toward the most ambitious EVA activity scheduled for Gemini 12: use of the Buck Rogers-like, jet-propelled Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (TIME, Nov. 26). Initial plans called for Aldrin to emerge from his hatch and work his way back to the AMU, stowed in Gemini's equipment section. After snapping the AMU's chairlike arms into place, he was to strap himself in and then jet about in space, connected to Gemini by a 125-ft. safety tether...
...Pearl Buck, on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement