Word: bucked
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...Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, announced last night that Provost Paul H. Buck with the approval of the Harvard Corporation voted against the National Collegiate Association’s football television policy for the 1953 season,” the College’s press release said. “Harvard intends not to be bound by any program restricting its right to decide independently when and to what extent it will televise athletic sports...
Maccoby and Abrams escaped disciplinary action from the University for their prank. As Maccoby recalls, Provost Paul H. Buck, the highest-ranking administrator at the time, gave them a pass because “everyone’s taking it as a big joke...
...coffee and grapefruit wedges and then trumpet the start of an adventure that would in a few hours take him inside the roaring wind tunnel at Fort Bragg. There, in the levitating blast of air, he grins and trains for free fall from an airplane, looking like Buck Rogers (his era) in helmeted black zip-up, forming an untethered star with half a dozen new buddies of the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team. "It's the greatest," he says...
...cost of food--quality food--is perhaps the best place to start. Calorically speaking, the best bang for the buck tends to be packed with sugar, fat and refined grains (think cookies and candy bars). In general, processed foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty...
...friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. These are not the kids of David Brooks’ world—except that at other times they are precisely...