Word: shucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back half a century in spirit to 1918, when Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points proclaimed the self-determination of peoples and enabled Czechoslovakia to be born as an independent state. This time, Czechoslovakia was announcing its own self-determination-a determination to regain control of its destiny and shuck off the worst features of an alien Communist system...
...baggy, high-collared uniforms, and frequently goes about shod in sandals made from rubber tires. Yet there are streaks of vanity in him. Because of his short stature (5 ft.), he likes to stand on boxes to deliver his speeches. On visits to his troops, he is liable to shuck his uniform, four-starred helmet and all, and show up dressed conspicuously in civilian clothes. He is a ruthless taskmaster, utterly contemptuous of the value of human life-even that of his own troops. "Every minute, thousands of men die all over the world," he tells his officers. "The life...
...Image to Shuck. To try to shuck his loser's image, Nixon hopes for accelerating primary triumphs in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Oregon and Nebraska. His aides say that he may also enter other state primaries against favorite-son Republicans. Nixon forces are banking, optimistically, on a first-or second-ballot victory at the convention...
Father Murray's life coincided in time and purpose with a new era in U.S. Catholicism. What had been largely a church of immigrant ethnic groups at the turn of the century became part of the pluralistic weave of American life, ready to shuck its minority-minded defensiveness and its sense of dependency on authority overseas. With deep insight and patient scholarship, Father Murray incorporated the U.S. secular doctrines of church-state separation and freedom of conscience into the spiritual tradition of Roman Catholicism...
...display has also been rare at the Globe, which languished for years under the flabby aim to be a paper "that would enter the homes as a kindly, helpful friend of the family." Under the prod of its new editor, Tom Winship, 45, the Globe has begun to shuck that please-'em-all philosophy. Ads have been dropped from the front page, almost every big syndicated columnist except Walter Lippmann has been signed on, and the new drama and music critics are both caustic and first-class. News stories have become sharper...