Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carry out his orders are no novelty. "This is a problem that must have started with George Washington," says one Nixon man. "If everybody went in immediately whenever he needed something, the White House wouldn't work." Harry Truman kept on his desk a sign that read THE BUCK STOPS HERE. It was a nice, punchy slogan, but the buck got to him only after it had filtered through his personal staff. Nor is it a new idea that the men who do the winnowing can exercise extraordinary power. Clark Clifford, a perennial adviser to postwar Democratic administrations, remembers...
Three weeks ago, in a small effusion meant to buck up public confidence in the economy, President Nixon told a group of businessmen: "Frankly if I had any money, I'd be buying stocks right...
...Scalise and wing attackmen Rick Buck and Bob Anthony are all outstanding, and so far this season all three have scored at least 38 points. Anthony, a third-team All-American, is leading the team with 41, so there is obvious balance. The Crimson defense will not be able...
...criticized for his judicial philosophy or specific decisions. Liberals may wish that he had shown more willingness to break new judicial ground; he has tended to shy away from interpretations of law not already sanctioned by the Supreme Court. On the highest bench, there can be no passing the buck, and most observers expect Blackmun to prove a highly independent justice. The court has yet to pass upon one of his most significant decisions: his refusal in 1968 to overrule the death sentence of an Arkansas black convicted of raping a white woman. The defendant raised some basic and complex...
...getting a Harvard degree. I am leaving because it is embarrassing to hear a Department Chairman admitting frankly that "I think you are being victimized, but there is nothing I can do about it." I am leaving even though I respect and appreciate the sincere professional concern which Professors Buck and Freidel have shown me. I am leaving because Professor Heimert-my last, best hope-does not think I should study popular literature either. I am leaving because when I look around I am afraid of what Harvard Graduate School does to people's souls. I am leaving because...