Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lonely teen-age broncin' buck, with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, But I knew I was out of luck The day the music died...
...revenues in 1971, and has been folding, bending and mutilating its rivals for years. Since 1970, two of the world's very biggest corporations, General Electric and RCA, have dropped out of computer manufacturing, each having lost more than $100 million to learn that IBM is hard to buck. But one gutsy company has hit the giant headon, sharply increased its own computer sales and firmly entrenched itself as No. 2 in the industry. The company is Minneapolis-based Honeywell...
...second time running, Good Housekeeping magazine's annual poll to determine the Most Admired Women named Rose Kennedy and Mamie Eisenhower as No. 1 and No. 2. The rest of the top ten: 3) Novelist Pearl S. Buck, 4) Actress Patricia Neal, 5) First Lady Patricia Nixon, 6) Israeli Premier Golda Meir, 7) Ethel Kennedy, 8) Actress Helen Hayes, 9) Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 10) Princess Grace of Monaco. The Most Admired were chosen by the magazine's 1,000-member consumer panel from a list of 28, which included Jacqueline Onassis, up to 19th from 23rd...
...best to stop the war, but its best was not nearly good enough. After three days of procedural wrangles and futile resolutions, the Security Council gave up; stymied by the Soviet nyets, the council passed the buck to the even wordier and less effectual General Assembly. There, a resolution calling for a cease-fire and withdrawal of Indian and Pakistan forces behind their own borders swiftly passed by an overwhelming vote...
Traditional rural music, especially, has been passed down without the benefit (or burden) of an intellectual framework. Country people who gathered at picnics, frolics and in honky-tonks managed to enjoy nearly anything: jigs, cakewalks, reels, buck dances, waltzes, blues. They had their heroes, but no super-stars. The reputation of a man like Blind Lemon Jefferson took a lifetime to build, unaided by the power of mass media. Today, our media have brought us to the brink of total cultural, regional homogeneity, and it would seem that the future of American folk music is the worse for it. Folk...