Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sodbusting, the ripping up or overturning of marginal, native grasslands in the West and Midwest [June 27], is one of the greatest environmental rapes of this nation's land. This conversion of the topsoil to the wrong side up, as the Indians call it, will yield a fast buck for those who care little for the earth. It is encouraging that the Reagan Administration has adopted a right-side-up environmental position by opposing this abuse...
...love with a conceited poet, Reginald Bunthorne (William Thorpe) who hypnotizes them with his pretentious over dramatic stanzas. Enter seven dragoons who are engaged to the maidens and can't understand Bunthorne's power over the women. Then comes another handsome poet dressed in white, from his white buck shoes to his white top hat Archibald Grosvenor (John Dennis Sullivan), who is disgusted by his natural ability to attract women. The maids switch over to Grosvenor who is passionately in love with Patience but Patience with her misguided view of love decides to marry Bunthorne, since her love...
...Penny resembles a London pub. It also offers the most diverse clientele of any bar in the Square: you will probably sit between a construction worker on break from the subway construction and a faculty members reading. The Icemen Cometh A 12-oz mug of draft goes for a buck and bartenders pour some of the strongest mixed drinks in the area, starting...
...inches thick becomes vulnerable to wind and rain erosion; once gone, it takes decades to replace. The sodbusters are either big operators who buy land and plow on a major scale, or small ranchers who break their own land for a quick cash fix. "I want to make a buck," concedes John Greytak, 53, a former Datsun dealer and present grain operator who since 1974 has broken 250,000 acres of grazing land, mostly in Montana, and stores some 30% of his wheat production in giant bins (for which the Government pays him 26.5? per bu. each year). Robert...
...finished with an evening of singing and dancing on top of the T subway station. The centerpiece of this midnight to down circus is the one and only Cosmo who is delightful ringmaster. Go in and visit Cosmo, say hi and order the Veri-tastee frankfurter for an even buck...