Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scheduled to arrive in Saigon this week, that the military will follow his activities "with interest." That is an understatement. A former civil rights lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, Aronson suggests that the L.M.D.C. may defend not only soldiers facing routine criminal charges but also those who buck military authority in exercising their constitutional rights. Among potential clients: frontline soldiers who question the legality of a superior's order...
...conditions which keep us in cities, plodding along with whatever we may consider to be our work. Thus... a job or a lover or a mission, like confronting what one believes about politics, and we are tied to our cities and their carnal fetishes, but we have passed the buck somehow in our own minds. Or there may be a human sharing desire, whereby one is fulfilled in suffering by the existence of fellow suffers. Bolstered by, unhappy, confirming faces, and the sharing of despondent memories with friends, reliving other moments, marking recurring visions as the week passes again through...
...care centers-robots? Men? Other downtrodden women? I raised four children and it was a labor of love, but I have no desire to raise someone else's children. In my opinion, it has nothing to do with Women's Liberation but is just plain passing the buck...
While hunting outside the Utah town of Redmond, Homer Behunin, 49, an amateur geologist, took a shot at a large male deer. The wounded buck ran off. As Behunin followed in hot pursuit, he stumbled onto a far more important prize: the fossilized remains of a primeval palm tree that may be the oldest flowering plant ever found...
Even while the last remnants of the riot were being swept away, the traditional exercise in bureaucratic buck-passing had already begun. Mayor John Lindsay held Governor Nelson Rockefeller directly responsible for correcting the situation; indeed, the city's jails contain 4,400 sentenced prisoners who should be transferred elsewhere. While accepting 300 for confinement in state facilities, Rocky reminded Lindsay that the first priority was to restore order. Even with the transfers, only two guards control 250 prisoners on each floor. The most confused official of all seemed to be the city's commissioner of correction, George...