Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really you should not hab ought to said that Beatle fiends could not understamp this bit of writty, becorpse we do frum the butter of our harps. We hab not began to talk like good owld Roger and Anne yet, buck we do lick to make writty as that...
...Japanese on U.S. style installment plans. The innovation lifted sales, but it also lifted eyebrows and stripped the company of cash when the income from credit sales did not at first cover production costs. Riccar foundered. Searching for a way to restore investors' faith and to buck up sagging employee morale until the income from installment sales began to build up, Hiraki rounded up 20 baseball players from high schools and colleges and put together Riccar's first baseball team. It won the Tokyo area championship in its first season, and kept Riccar in the ball game. "Investors...
There was a shock waiting for the 200 delegates to the U.S. Conference of the World Council of Churches at their annual meeting last week at Buck Hill Falls, Pa. In his opening address, Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, the Council's executive secretary in the U.S., an nounced that he was retiring in October because of a heart condition...
Though his constructions have had the brittle, balanced look of a Buck Rogers chessboard, recently Ortman has been going backward. He builds painting around a detailed formal analysis of past masters. He has broken down Gauguin's triptych Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Matisse's Piano Lesson, Botticelli's Allegory of Spring. Says he: "I try to find the actual construction of the painting with geometrical symbols. My subject matter is paint. Someone told me that art comes from art; I took it literally...
...seaman--and quickly to the college man at sea--women are tools again. But the distinction man/woman is clearly drawn, and all others as well: you are male, a "buck" or "stud"; or you are homosexual, a "queen"; or, commonly, bisexual, "AC/DC", "Greek", "double-cheeked". (Incidently, the homosexuals in the union hall keep clear and apart, and tend to ship together; anywhere in the fleet you can hear of Tillie, the Queen Bee of the Independence and the sous-chef there.) In the general camaraderie there's a great deal of rough humor about this, but no fundamental questionings: everyone...