Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy began this winter when Director of the Summer School Peter Buck said he had decided to reduce the number of teaching fellows in all courses except laboratory and computer sciences, and foreign languages. "Outside of these, we would do a case-by-case review," Buck said yesterday of his earlier decision...
...Vicksburg, Miss., the Army engineers have had to dredge an emergency channel in the shrinking river to & unclog the bizarre traffic jam. At Memphis low water levels broke all the records that had been put down on the books going back to 1872. But where somebody is losing a buck, there is always an American hustler trying to make one. The Illinois Central Railroad has put on additional cars to carry grain that can't go by water. Where the barges wait and wallow, small "midstreamers" dart here and there, peddling groceries and supplies to the stalled rivermen...
...consumate animal player; he is more cunning than a grey fox, swifter than a spring buck, and with his nautilus training, stronger than a wooly mammoth," Jack says...
...overturn the veto, and only 10 out of the 250 Democrats in the House who voted opposed the bill. Such nearunanimity among Democrats in opposition of the President is completely unprecedented in the Reagan years, since most Southern conservatives unquestioningly follow the President's wishes. Their willingness to buck the President on this issue is testament to the increased influence of Black constituents...
...tangled undergrowth. Siegel, a scrawny, bespectacled teenager who was then drifting through Cleveland's Glenville High School, worked as a delivery boy for $4 a week, gave part of the money to help support his impoverished family and invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain...