Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater still believes that national "immorality" under a Democratic administration is his hottest issue. At the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, he lambasted Democrats as the "party of the fast buck and the slow investigation." In Pikesville, he told a thousand $100a-plate diners: "To the temporary President, running a country means twisting arms and banging heads together. It means buying and bludgeoning voters. It means getting a TV monopoly in his home state and building a private fortune. It means surrounding himself with companions like Bobby Baker, Billie Sol Estes, Matt McCloskey . . ." At that point, Barry paused; the audience...
...legislature countered by rearresting Singh-and holding the two judges in contempt. When the full state court issued a stay on the contempt warrants for their colleagues, the legislature issued warrants for their arrest. By that time, things were getting so hot that India's President could only buck the case to India's Supreme Court. The basic issue: Are India's elected legislatures the sole judges of their own powers, privileges and immunities...
...Manila's eleven daily newspapers (six in English) crackle with scare headlines reporting the latest murders, rapes and pirate raids (which still occur at a rate of one a week, conducted by Moros in motorized sailboats armed with modern weapons). In the back pages of the papers dwell Buck Rogers, Peanuts and the pistol ads. More than 25,000 weapons were left in the islands after World War II; they were not "enough for the 31 million Filipinos, most of whom prefer to go armed. Last year one act of violence was attempted every hour-ranging from murder...
...hoyden in love with Blaine, disguises herself as a soldier and fools everyone but perspicacious Sam, who stumbles upon her bathing nude in a river. Among the good guys are O'Hara, an Irish sergeant with a heart of gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies who never learn -they always pick fights with Elaine and end up flat on their backs...
...WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri fashions a superb parable of man's inhumanity from this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...