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Word: bucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went on to Hanover in 1972, where his teams accounted for four Hoosier Buck eye Conference Championships in five years, earned two NAIA playoff berths, and ran up an overall record...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Carter Country | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

...Reiffel's abundant talent saves the day. His sense of musical style rivals his ear for dry martini English witticisms as he enlivens the Sullivan-style score with occasional jazzy solos and melodramatic Latin rhythms. One of the best songs. "The Buck Stops Here," plays off the kind of Honour, Valor, and Cheerful Alacrity of plucky young Englishmen that Chariots of Fire took so seriously. Best of all, the score leaves us with a catchy tune to hum as we leave the theater--"Say Goodbye...

Author: By Susan R. Mollal, | Title: Whodunit | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

Roland E. Buck Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1982 | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family of encryption schemes, so called because one of their secret code words, or keys, can be made public without giving anything away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Opening the Trapdoor Knapsack | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...great fullback Younger began the legend, the first player from a black college to make it to the National Football League. Tank returned to the rural school of 4,000 in north Louisiana and helped Willie Davis get to the N.F.L. Davis came back and helped Ernie Ladd and Buck Buchanan. Rosey Taylor helped Willie Brown. Charlie Joiner helped Sammie White. Now White has been coming back to help a receiver named Trumaine Johnson, who should be a No. 1 draft choice next year and the 206th Grambling Tiger to play professional football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Some People Build the Roads | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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