Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BUCK ROGERS belongs to the past Science fiction the United States has finally struggled to a state of respectability, shedding the dime-store pulp magazine image it acquired in the 20s and '30s. Gone are the lurid magazine covers of space ships, ray guns and over-endowed Galactic princesses; the romantic, swashbuckling days of Depression science fiction have passed, replaced by serious literary efforts--carefully written and structured novels and short stories...
...would have to find some walnuts grown on state land to keep the squirrels from becoming a vanishing breed. But then Assemblyman Edwin L. Z'berg won 50 Ibs. of walnuts in a raffle, which he promptly gave to Chappie. Now other assemblymen are anteing up a buck apiece for a nut fund to keep the squirrels gamboling as happily as in the days before Proposition Nine altered the ways and means of everyone's life in Sacramento...
...Class Officers for 1975 are: Jean Guyton of Kirkland House, first marshal; Sukie Taylor of Lowell House, Sarah Wehle of Currier House, and Victoria Wells of Lowell House, marshals; Joan Porter of Lowell House, secretary; Avarita Hanson of Currier House, treasurer; Carol Allen and Cynthia Leuders, Quad representatives; Linda Buck, Bren Buckley, Ingrid Liu and Gloria Wu, River representatives...
...eventually find intolerable. Cutbacks would be particularly rough for Iran and Iraq, both of which plan substantial production increases hi the next few years to finance their grand development programs. Rather than reduce output, other populous countries with ambitious development schemes?Nigeria, Venezuela, Indonesia?might be tempted to buck the cartel by selling below the fixed price. Ecuador, which badly needs development money, is already in some trouble. High prices have cut demand for its oil by one-third since...
...Development Authority. Sporting a hair transplant and a WIN button, Mills unveils a new program for light-traffic hours, modeled after the MTA's highly successful Dime Time. "With unemployment at 12 per cent, not everyone can afford our usual rates," Mills says. "That's why we need the Buck Fuck...