Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, Buck Rogers meets Daddy Warbucks...
Despite those missing in action, the outlook for the team is not entirely bleak. Captain Andy Regan is in good condition and Peter Jelley, who was injured for much of last season, is in good condition. The biggest boost for the squad may be the return of Buck Logan. Sidelined last year after an operation on his heel, the senior distance specialist has finally recovered and is running in the form that makes him co-owner of the Harvard indoor two-mile record...
...million). The 600-acre Ponderosa ranch in Incline Village, Nev., where part of the 1960s television series Bonanza was filmed ($10 million). An oil refinery in Alberta, Canada, Bob Hope's 10,000 acres of California land and several Learjets. Those were just a few of the big-buck items available last week at the Sales Trade and Purchase International, a two-day event in Reno, described by Orga nizer Brian Lovig as a "swap meet for the elite...
When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote "hours to a consideration of the nature of sexual relations in Western society," then come "to the conclusion he'd started with, that the only way to keep a woman in line was to do what the Anatolians do: run off a string of pregnancies, then dress the woman...
...innumerable petitions and promoted countless social causes without questioning their country of origin or their ultimate goal. But she could also be brainy, fearless and tough, and just hammy enough at times to take the curse off her indomitable goodness. After all, when impressionists mimicked Eleanor Roosevelt's buck-toothed smile, they were also repeating her messages on tolerance and humanity...