Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Congress was so willing to buck a popular President with a powerful mandate, they can be expected to give Bush no ground during his tenure...
Manager Tommy Lasorda's prescience began with his use of Hatcher. Besides making a concert of the hit and run, Lasorda also let the A's alumnus Mike Davis ("a buck-ninety hitter," as Dennis Eckersley moaned) swing away in the fifth game on a 3-and-0 count -- for a homer, of course. Wisest of all, he persisted with Hershiser in the treacherous moment of that last 5-2 victory, when the choirboy was so spooked he actually sang hymns. "Today I'm living out the dream," Hershiser had said, "of a kid who was funny looking, wore glasses...
KINGFISH. Buck Henry is a prissy-elegant queen who tangles with a hustler in Marlane Meyer's absurdist farce at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
Inside, a topless brunette woman in a g-string moves to the sounds of Stevie Nicks, displaying her athletic body, and her buck-teeth when she smiles. Nicks's husky voice matches the dark, smoky, sleazy atmosphere of the club...
...Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...