Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like his songs, a Haggard concert is simple and direct. No fancy cowboy suits, rhinestone decorations or hand-tooled boots for him. He may introduce his wife Bonnie Owens, a well-known singer who divorced Country Star Buck Owens twelve years before she married Haggard in 1965. Or he will tease his fans by saying "Merle Haggard isn't here tonight. I'm filling in for him. Those of you who aren't country music fans, you're in the wrong damn place...
...buck up Sparling, and the cause of the G.O.P., the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee gave $35,000 to the fight. The Michigan G.O.P., as State Chairman William McLaughlin later lamented, "put every penny we had into this race." Percy paid a visit to help out. But there were early intimations of disaster. Volunteer workers were hard to come by. Vice President Gerald Ford, whose home district lies some 100 miles southwest, could not assist, it was said, because of "scheduling problems." Most disconcerting of all, a local Republican chairman took off on the eve of the election for a month...
...arms and singing one of the most famous commercials-the one that accompanied Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy: "Won't you buy Wheaties, the best breakfast food in the land! Won't you try Wheaties ..." The melody lingers on, but Jack-and Little Orphan Annie and Buck Rogers-are only memories. Recordings of their series have disappeared and, radio fans fear, are probably lost forever...
...Super Cops is a loud and clumsy film about two cops-yes, again - who buck the system. Dave Greenberg (Ron Leibman) and Bob Hantz (David Selby) were a team of real New York City policemen, but the movie turns them into just another couple of characters trotted out for a lineup that runs from Serpico through Busting...
...social structure in many places in rural Alaska has been blown apart, much as it has been in central cities, the ghettos and Appalachia. The things that were important to people have been taken away, and when there's nothing to do, they'll take their last buck to get a bottle and stay drunk all the time...