Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listening to Dino de Laurentiis, one gets the distinct impression that this master of sensationalistic tripe would re-make Michelangelo's David and build it 500 ft. tall if he thought there were a buck to be made. The late Willis O'Brien, who expressively animated the original King Kong, must be turning in his grave...
...that department, amidst the CIA coverage he's been drawing. Harvard's Bill Emper, who stuck to Farnham like Dentu-Grip last year at Providence, will most likely cover him alone today, a job about as desirable as being Robert Dole's joke writer. Whether Farnham makes a buck-private out of Harvard's captain in the confrontation remains to be seen...
...Buck Passers. The maritime unions were propelled into the spotlight in late September when Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff began investigating reports that President Ford had made illegal use of union campaign contributions. Ford had indeed received legal campaign contributions from the unions, and Ruff last week cleared him of any wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant...
...edged back into the lead when veteran Cookie Rojas singled, stole second and scored on Buck Martinez's clothesline single to right...
...Quick Buck. Why do students bother? "Romanticism, a certain Perry Mason complex," answers Gorfinkle, who also points to the social turmoil of the past decade, when many became convinced that law was a key to changing the system. The Educational Testing Service reports that nationwide, 133,000 students took the law boards in 1975, four times as many as six years ago. A big factor in the jump is the large number of women who want to become lawyers. At Berkeley last year, 102 out of 292 law students were women...