Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard ("Rab") Butler was caught by a news camera tripping lightly into 10 Downing Street for all the world as if he were doing a buck and wing...
There is no way of knowing how far local television could go if the HAA were willing, for the NCAA still restricts the number of television dates. The University will almost certainly refuse to buck NCAA regulations, even if it disapproves of them, since to do so would be to risk expulsion and to make opponents almost impossible to find. During the more restricted era from 1952-54, the University killed feelers on the subject...
From all sides came suggestions that the armed services should be "restrained" first, and much optimism about more punch for the pound (like Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features about wasteful and frivolous practices in the armed services (the R.A.F. colonel who had his batmen dress up in Louis XIV servant rig for a costume ball...
...later the three buddies reunite in their favorite saloon and are shocked to find that their boozy camaraderie of yore is dead as yesterday's glass of beer. Their strained efforts to rekindle brotherly love first produce boredom, then brotherly loathing. Kelly has degenerated into a Broadway fast-buck man who manages a double-dealing prizefighter; Dailey has overblown himself into a slobbish, ulcer-ridden TV idea man; Kidd, the papa of five of them, runs a crummy Schenectady diner specializing in "Cordon Blue" hamburgers...
Last week he told his faculty that he had no "dramatic" plans in mind for Brown (3,600 students, 450 on the faculty). But he has made himself one promise that, if kept, will make him a rare sort of president indeed. "In 1949," says Keeney, "Provost Paul Buck of Harvard wrote me that I would do all right as an administrator as long as I continue to think as a professor. That's the spirit in which I intend to carry...