Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would think that the high-scoring, laid-buck affair would have affected Harvard's fielding, but coach Alex Nathigian's leather-slappers turned in their third errorless game...
...flock of MiG fighters, was falling apart under a plodding but determined advance by a mere 4,000 Tanzanian troops and a miscellaneous collection of Ugandan exiles. Since early February, this force had been moving north from the border that Amin barged across last fall in an effort to buck up his tough-guy image by seizing a piece of Tanzanian territory. For weeks Amin's regime had been pinpricked by guerrilla attacks around the country and more seriously hurt by a near total shutdown of fuel supplies from Kenya. Oil truck drivers have refused to drive into Uganda...
...Georgia Buck, a black secretary in the office, at least had a reason not to produce: revenge. Several years earlier she had been involved in an affirmative-action suit, and since then she had been shuffled-"detailed," in bureaucratese -among offices in the department. When I knew her she was on her fifth detail, felt very persecuted, and on the rare occasions when she was given anything to do, worked far below her abilities...
...very bad $22 billion this year. But the dollar probably will remain weak for a variety of reasons: a surfeit of $600 billion in greenbacks is sloshing around the world as a result of inflationary excesses; foreign governments are weary of spending their own currency to support the beleaguered buck; and foreign moneymen think that America's leadership is soft and uncertain...
Cost of the massive project: $750 million, to be shared almost equally by the state and federal governments. But California would buck its bill back to the farmers by charging them $15 per acre-foot of drainage water and $1.30 per acre-foot for incoming irrigation water. That, they fear, would drain them of cash. Says Cerutti: "It would ruin me." Adds Tulare County Farmer Stan Barnes: "It's the unknown, hidden costs that worry...