Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumer affairs just five months ago, but under its general manager, Fern Jellison, a veteran city employee, it has already run up a strong record. So far it has received more than 4,500 complaints, which involved a wide range of businesses from questionable land-sale schemes to fast-buck health-spa operations. Many of these complaints are resolved informally by one of the bureau's 14 investigators who visit the accused businessmen. The bureau has obtained refunds and cost adjustments amounting to $267,000. Says Jellison: "No one in our bureau says 'Sorry, we have no jurisdiction...
...offer passengers something more interesting than the traditional public-relations puffery. Accordingly, the Caldwells commissioned artists such as Peter Max and Alexander Calder to paint covers and other art work that by now has won more than 30 art awards, and got name authors like James Michener, Pearl Buck and Nathaniel Benchly to write for them. Recent issues have roamed over such diverse topics as American Indian law, city planning, and British Historian Arnold Toynbee's reflections on religion, morality and the world-city...
...making this day necessary," said Yogi Berra, wiping away a tear. The youngest player ever to be inducted, Sandy Koufax, 36, thanked the coach "who pushed me, shoved me, embarrassed me and made me work, and thank God for him." After similar expressions from Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn and Buck Leonard, it came time for the award to Josh Gibson, the greatest batter in the Negro leagues. Gibson died in 1947, but Josh Gibson Jr. was on hand to receive the plaque: "I want to say a personal word to my father: Wake up, Dad, you just made...
...homes (Ace Bonner has agreed to it after losing all his cash in hair-brained prospecting schemes), and the mother is going to be installed in the development curio shop. Junior himself is swiftly losing the respect he once held in other men's eyes. He asks stock contractor Buck Roan (played fullheartedly by Ben Johnson) if he could ride the Brahma bull once more for his hometown people, even offering half his purse money for it. Roan (before he finally accepts) shakes his head: "You've just got to admit to yourself you ain't the rider you were...
Bernard Frawley and Terrence Currier, playing Phil Hogan and James Tyrone, Jr., respectively, are the mainstays of the production. Both move comfortably in their difficult roles and both deliver their lines beautifully. Frawley is indeed an irascible "ugly little buck goat" of a father with a polished brogue and a fine comic sense. And Currier exudes the actor's charm of James Tyrone through a convincing alcoholic dissipation. The two minor characters, a younger son, Mike Hogan, and a rich Yankee neighbor, Harder are also excellent...