Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Only his overriding concern with maintaining the judicial propriety and his skill at perpetuating the "myth of judicial seclusion" kept Frankfurter's lobbying publicly unknown for so long. That--and his tacit ability to harm the careers of those who threatened to buck his will by revealing his extraordinary lobbying efforts through his backdoor to Congress and his ties with Roosevelt administrators...
Without a high turnout by students and other younger--and typically liberal--voters, the power of the buck may be too strong for Cambridge's collective city conscience...
Small businessmen are not alone in scrambling to make a buck. The fair's organizers are big businessmen who conceived it as a profit-making venture as well as a civic-spirited showcase. The fair and adjacent real estate developments were financed by an intricate combination of private money and, to a much larger extent, public funds. Nearly all the deals have a common connection: Jake Butcher, 46, a Knoxville banking magnate and twice a candidate for Governor. Banker Bert Lance, Butcher's friend and Jimmy Carter's ill-starred budget chief, made the entr...
...darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed, political agitator, champion womanizer. The Hollywood...
Instead of "passing the buck," universities must lead the way in ethical investing. Brutus says, decrying the argument put forth by some colleges that it is not their place to make foreign policy. Such excuses, he explains, "abdicate all moral responsibility." Brutus also condemns the contention that some Blacks actually want the corporate help. "You can always find Uncle Toms who will parrot what needs to be said," he notes. "There is a reward for collaborating with the system," he adds, pointing to the economic advancement of Blacks who have supported outside investment in the country. Far more telling than...