Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display of post-election charity, Johnson invited leading Democrats from Georgia, one of the few states he did not carry, to the ranch. Senator Her man Talmadge and Governor Carl Sanders each bagged an eight-point buck...
Britons love to buck the tide. While even Russia and the satellites are marching their economies away from centralization and toward the profit motive, Britain's new Labor government is charging right ahead to renationalize the steel industry...
...second play from scrimmage, racing 61 yds. for a TD?while Coach Parseghian matched him step for step, shouting "Go! Go! Go!" Then it was Fullback Joe Farrell, cracking the Spartan line on three straight plays for 15 yds. On the fourth play, he faked a line buck and zigzagged downfield to take a pass from Quarterback John Huarte. That put the ball on the Michigan State eight. Another Farrell fake, another Huarte pass?touchdown...
Constitutional Caution. Until recently, eugenic sterilization of misfits was accepted as a social benefit that did not violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Speaking for the Supreme Court in the 1927 case of Buck v. Bell, Mr. Justice Holmes upheld Virginia's sterilization of mental defectives with the classic statement, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" But scientists now consider many human defects to be as much a product of environment as of heredity...
...Robert Taft Jr. has a name that is magic in Ohio, but it took more than magic to buck the Johnson tide, which peaked at better than 700,000. For Republican Representative Taft, 47, the problem was not just incumbent Senator Stephen M. Young, an aging (75) me too echo of Lyndon Johnson. A greater obstacle was the all-too-likely possibility that voters might not be able to distinguish between conservative Re- publicanism Taft-style, and Goldwater-style. Taft was honest enough to admit that he agreed with Goldwater in some areas, particularly fiscal. But he went...