Word: bucked
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Farrell's resurgence at the plate was perhaps the brightest spot in the batmen's performance. The beffy cleanup hitter endured a one-for-13 slump in the team's doubleheaders against Penn and Columbia last weekend. Yesterday he roared buck with a four-for-six outing that lifted his batting average from...
...years since the release of the Merian C. Cooper classic King Kong, time has taken its toll on the beast and his splendid art-deco perch. The Empire State Building is no longer the world's tallest building, and King Kong is not the young buck he used to be either. This month, to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary, these two critical elements of the beauty-and-the-beast tale were reunited: a ten-story, 3,000-lb. inflatable Kong (at 84 ft., more than 30 ft. taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile...
...know about it, however. First, a political fast represents a unique and courageous assumption by an individual of the price of political activism, a kind of paring down of obligation from the wider membership of an organization to the single person, creating a situation where, so to speak, "the-buck-stops-at-me." As such the political fast is an awesome burden--one that runs the risk of grievous if not ultimate injury to the fasting individual. It is precisely this heavy burden that lends the act of political fasting its special aura--a profoundly self-denying and self-sacrificial...
Other important tools of his trade can be found in a sagging pocket. There repose a barlow knife and a buck knife for whittling when somebody makes him wait and a hard Arkansas whetstone for sharpening when somebody makes him wait longer. When the subject of an interview at last gives him an audience, Windsor puts away his knives, and when the subject says something that impresses this porcine correspondent, Windsor has been known to gush, "God bless your old heart...
...brief look at Arbatov's career only serves to reinforce this impression, for our man clearly knew how to pick--and stick with--the right people. In the early 1960s, for example, Arbatov was a confident of the late Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev. And all the way buck in 1964, he became an advisor to Yuni V. Andropov, then one of several secretaries of the Communist party's Central Committee. Today Andropov is Secretary General of the Central Committee and Arbator director of the prestigious Institute for United States and Canadian Studies...