Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buses have become sprightly delights. The bus groaning up steep Perry Highway bears the blue and white of Perry High School, and passengers rock in their seats to music provided by a cassette tape recorder. The transit authority also sells a $1 weekend pass, known as the Big Buck, that allows four people to ride wherever they like from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Monday...
With its innovations, the Pittsburgh authority reports that riders in September were up 12% over a year ago. The national average jumped 7.8%- good, but not up to the results of the system with the Wild Card and the Big Buck...
...Shortage. One reason for the J-school boom is the press's role in Watergate. Says Buck Harvey, 23, editor of the University of Texas' Daily Texan: "Journalism is one of the few professions that require integrity. The pay is small. But that doesn't bother me, because you don't have to put up a facade." Prior to the scandal, the old images of tough muckrakers and dashing foreign correspondents had faded. Now some of the glamour is back. Says Richard Petrow, dean of New York University's program: "When Robert Redford plays...
...arms of Scylla swooping down upon our noses, then the water was Charybdis, a horrifying whirlpool of slime, filth, and most dangerous of all, rapscallions on the shore waiting in ambush. There was no telling what would show up on a day's row. Once, we found a dead buck--it was unmarked so we speculated that it had fallen through some thin ice. Another time a man's body was found...
...Good Earth [1937]. From Pearl Buck's novel. Ch. 5, 11:15 p.m. B/W, 2 hours, 35 minutes...