Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mick's boys, olive-skinned, handsome Johnny Stompanato. A small-town boy with big ideas, Johnny was a preening gigolo, brushed his black hair thick and wavy, wore his shiny silk shirts open all the way down to his navel. He was also the fast-buck type, who, police well knew, built his bankroll by making time with thrill-seeking wealthy women, borrowed their money, rarely paid it back. Lana took Johnny in tow, paid his bills, flashed around the town on his muscular arm. When she flew to London last September to make a new picture...
...Ridge, Tenn., to research a new yarn with an atomic science background, prolific Novelist Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, 65, passed on a bit of literary advice to a young reporter: "Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, paragraphs. Get your story on paper. You can always find someone to correct your grammar...
...soup strainers, monocles, nippers, wax teeth, putty nebs, and anything else he could find in his makeup kit, Guinness gleefully paraded himself before the public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual...
Educators are "passing the buck" by expecting the Natural Sciences program to fill the gaps of a student's inadequate scientific preparation, asserted Cecelia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronmer and chairman of the Department. Substantial training in mathematics and physics for all students must begin in the secondary schools, she said...
...Buck Coulter, the "trail boss." Brings out the worst in Jennie by showing too much chest hair ("It's indecent"), eventually becomes her third mate...