Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Being away from home so long makes me shut out the world," he continued. "The one thing is to make money. When I do good, I have a party, and everybody does good. When I do bad, I might ask 'em for a buck, and they better not refuse 'cause one day I just might walk up with three grand and give 'em a hundred...
...When that little jock makes the big time, he don't remember the groom who said, 'Drop your arms' or 'Don't pull the horse; he's got a tender mouth.' Three years from then if you go up to him for a buck, he might say, 'Get outta my face...
...confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to fill the ninth seat on the U.S. Supreme Court looked to be as sure a thing as bean soup on the Senate dining room's daily menu. Between Southern conservatives backing a sympathetic Floridian and Republican liberals hesitant to buck President Nixon a second time after defeat of the Haynsworth nomination in November, the White House forces counted 55 pro-Carswell votes. Last week, however, three factors coalesced to place the Carswell nomination in sudden and serious jeopardy...
...could afford to do so. While few Senators can find much to rave about in Carswell's record, fewer still can find enough to deny him their vote. Liberal Republicans who bucked Nixon on the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system and the nomination of Clement Haynsworth are loath to buck him again and must be shown something of a grave nature to deny him Carswell. Subjective criticism of his judicial talents, a 22-year-old racist speech, and other evidence of a segregationist past are considered insufficient reason to reverse the Senate tradition that a President is entitled...
Recruiters are becoming particular about whom they will take. James L. Lubin, placement director at Newark College of Engineering, notes that the vague, egghead type is being left out. Says he: "Companies appear to be going for the student who can turn a buck...