Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disseminating reports recommending for the SI it is preferable to designate and disseminate to Secret Service immediately and put the FD-376 (the buck slip to Secret Service) on the second Bureau copy...
...begins with a clip from the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, showing Buster Crabbe happily engaged in space exploration in the 25th century. But the real 25th century, says THX 1138 director George Lucas, is a denatured anthill where populations lead lives of quiet respiration. Every bodily function is mechanically analyzed; sexual relations are forbidden; food consists of ampuls and dehydrated protein bars...
Watson is sacrificing the soccer team's interests for his own when he passed the buck to the faculty committee instead of making the decision himself. Watson became athletic director at the beginning of this term. and he, understandably, is very hesitant to let his athletic staff see that his first major act in office is the removal of a coach. But if Watson is really concerned with the interests of the players and Munro, he will act for their sake...
...dozen: the unctuous gambler Bert Gordon in The Hustler; the slithering prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, squinting at witnesses through slit eyes like a starving mongoose ready for the kill; the self-destructive doctor in Petulia; the cool, clipped English sleuth in The List of Adrian Messenger; General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove, slapping his burgeoning paunch and producing a sound like a thunderclap from Olympus, wrestling the Russian ambassador to the floor of the war room as the world ends with a comic bang...
...good idea to Pan American Airways to advertise its flight to Casablanca with a movie still of the late Bogey and those immortal words. To his widow Lauren Bacall, though, it seemed like a lousy idea. "Is there no limit to what people will do to make a buck?" she snarled. "It's the worst sort of invasion of privacy. Bogart didn't do this sort of advertising when he was alive, so why should they be able to make him do it when he is dead? How dare they!" The airline pointed out that permission had been...