Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some are dedicated to helping the homeless and crippled; others are seeking the fast and easy buck. Army deserters run bars in the coastal cities; honorably discharged veterans turn in their O.D.s for saffron robes and study to become Buddhist monks. Some of the American expatriates are fleeing broken marriages; others simply prefer the style and pace of life in Viet Nam to the rat race back home. Whatever their reasons, it is clear that the "yellow sickness" has now claimed its share of Americans. A sampling...
...voices of the cast were loud and scornful, and there I was, buck naked, somewhere in the middle of the city and unwanted, remembering missed football tackles, lost fights, the contempt of strangers, the sound of laughter from behind shut doors. I held my valuables in my right hand, my literal identification. None of it was irreplaceable, but to cast it off would threaten my essence, the shadow of myself that I could see on the floor, my name...
...June. Then, he told the jury, he became certain that someone in the White House had gone over his head and approved the plans. Without White House approval, Mitchell insisted, such lowly figures as Hunt and Liddy would not have dared to go ahead. Mitchell thus passed the buck back to Nixon's White House...
...Club 47 was the place to go in Cambridge seven or eight years ago. You'd walk down those outdoor iron stairs at 47 Palmer Street into a dingy cave that held about 50 people you couldn't see. You'd pay your quarter or half-buck, and Tom Rush '64 would be sitting there, growling away...
Incidentally, a closer look reveals that The Crimson comes up short on its own limited terms of bureaucratiic responsibility. Acting Dean Ford always made it clear that he was the responsible Dean now, whereas the acting Financial Dean, whose finesse The Crimson extolled, kept passing the buck, reminding the Union that after all, he was only the Acting Dean...