Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that no other person from Earth has ever seen Saturn and its rings so close!" Wilma said. "I wonder what Titan will be like?" "Well," Buck replied, "it won't be long...
Last week, while earthlings nearly a billion miles away marveled as they monitored its progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering...
...Jarret family: Calvin, the father (Sutherland), a successful tax attorney and ineffectual nice guy; Beth, the mother (Moore), a gracious but icily repressed suburbanite; and Conrad, their son (Hutton), who spent four months in a mental hospital after slashing his wrists. Conrad's troubles unfold slowly: his older brother Buck (mother's favorite) died in a boating accident which Conrad survived. Beth "buried the best of her love" with Buck, and Conrad has been punishing himself ever since. Beth's rejection, Calvin's ineffectual concern and Conrad's own self-criticism and guilt conspire to make the kid a wreck...
Sophomore Buck Logan crossed the line first for Harvard as he placed 34th overall in 30:50--almost 25 seconds off his best time on the Franklin Park course and 1:33 off Treacy's first place time...
...biggest stumbling block to the use of the futuristic equipment is the boss. Says Francis G. ("Buck") Rodgers, IBM's vice president for corporate marketing: "The office has not changed its essential procedures for over 100 years, and particularly the professionals become a bit wary when anyone tries to change what goes on." Managers have been reluctant to use the new machines, especially if they involve a keyboard. Says Phil Roybal, marketing manager of Apple Computer Inc.: "Most managers wouldn't have a typewriter in their office. A lot regard a keyboard as something that doesn...