Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Secrets. At Abbey these days they call McGuire "The Fox." Riding the bench as though it were a bronco in full buck, McGuire baits officials ("I must hold the Carolina record for technical fouls"), indicates uncontrollable wrath by rising ominously from his seat and taking off his coat. Behind him, as if on signal, Abbey rooters stand to doff theirs in sympathy. Showman McGuire has also outraged basketball purists by offering to buy every spectator an ice-cream bar if Abbey lost-it did, but the ice cream was donated free by a manufacturer-and by insisting that there...
Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
Included in the group are two members of the Faculty, Dean Bundy and Paul H. Buck, University Professor. The Institute also selected a former University Faculty member, Mrs. Charles M. Gray, a historian currently teaching at the University of Chicago...
...Buck pointed out that the University needs the best facilities to attract the best students and professors, and it has a responsibility to provide a "library worthy of them...
Berenson's library adds to the two foreign units that the Library owns in South Africa and in Cubs. According to Buck, I Tatti will be "indispensible" to the institute for Italian art and culture to be established there...