Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain refuses to grant Southern Rhodesia full independence until this inequity is remedied, while Southern Rhodesia's "cowboy government" - so named because its ruling, white-supremacist Rhodesian Front Party consists mostly of ranchers - threatens to buck rather than submit to the rowels of a black majority. The cowboys say that they will declare independence from Britain unilaterally if they are not granted it this year under the existing constitution. Last week the cowboys kicked out their old range boss, Prime Minister Winston Field, 60, in favor of a tougher, younger...
Penn has already lost to Brown and Yale, but it has an explosive attack combination that could trouble the Crimson. Crease man Dave Buck, who measures 6 ft., 4 in. and weighs 210, has scored four times on feeds from Don Spurdle...
...since Iran shares 1,500 miles of its northern border with Russia, the name did not fool anyone. Staged in cooperation with the mideast CENTO military alliance and planned by U.S. General Paul Adams' Tampa-based MEAFSA command (see box), the war games were clearly designed to buck up a nervous U.S. ally in whom the U.S. has invested one-half billion dollars in military assistance. Said one U.S. State Department planner: "We ought to show our muscle. There will be words and then it will be forgotten...
...Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Armco, National and Jones & Laughlin-as well as Wheeling Steel and National's Great Lakes Steel sub sidiary. Conspicuously not charged were Inland Steel and Kaiser Steel, two major producers that are generally shut out of the industry's Establishment because they often buck the prices set by bigger companies-as they...
Provost of the University from 1945 to 1953. Buck was acting President during President Conant's wartime government service and again during the interim between the Conant and Pusey administrations...