Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position of Dean of the Faculty was first created in did not become important until fifty years later, when speech-minded Harvard President James Bryant over the University to an obscure but capable old history professor named Paul Buck...
...Jack Kennedy didn't call all businessmen s.o.b.s. If he did, he certainly was showing disrespect for one of the cleverest, who made it possible for him to get sunburned tootsies on the Cape while most other youngsters of his age were trying to pick up a stray buck working during the Depression...
Last year, watching the stamp scramble mount, MacDonald began to regret his uncharacteristic 1957 decision to retreat from the field. Seeking the most effective re-entry point, he decided that A. & P. could not continue to buck the stamp trend much longer, set up the Plaid stamp plan especially for A. & P. "I went there cold," he says. But MacDonald had one overriding asset: since all the other major trading stamp distributors had already signed up with competing grocery chains, none of them were free to bid for A. & P.'s business...
...Alta.. the brindled bull with a big O branded on his left hip stood placidly while the long-legged cowpoke settled gingerly on his back. Benny Reynolds, professional rodeo's All-Around Champion, was frankly worried: "I couldn't believe that anything standing that gentle would buck enough to impress the judges." Then the gate swung open, and Reynolds learned better. Hoofs pounding, the old bull charged wildly into the arena, spun dizzily to his left, then suddenly reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump. "I looked...
From the first, Gaslight Square attracted a fair share of mink coats along with turtleneck sweaters and black stockings. Then the latter took on a different look as proprietors required customers to wear coats and ties. Says one cabaret owner: "We give a buck's worth of booze for a buck. And no strolling, lonely chicks. Once you start letting that happen, you are in for trouble." Today, the Square has no strippers, no gyp joints, lots of good clean gaslit...