Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been severely hampered by the choppy water and cold air, but Bolles ran a time trial Tuesday and has since been practicing starts and sprints. "We couldn't tell anything from the trials," complained Bolles, who explained that "you can't expect optimum performance when an oarsman gets a bucket of cold water across his back on each stroke...
...thirty-five thousand dollars now being spent on remodelling is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the yearly earnings, but Cocoris feels leery about making too many alterations. The interior of Jake Wirth's next door has hardly been changed since the turn of the century, nor has anyone ever thought seriously of ripping off the Gay Nineties brass button and black leather effects at Locke Ober's several blocks away. Some of the waiters, who have themselves been part of the scenery for twenty years or more, are disappointed that he is not planning to take...
...History" -sometimes through interpreters, sometimes (as in Lahore) with History's riotous sound effects running him competition. He and equally energetic Mrs. Coffin endured a schedule that sometimes called for three or four lectures and two banquets a day; 36-hour journeys in dirty train coaches; chancy bucket-seat rides in rickety aircraft. On one occasion, engine trouble brought Dr. Coffin's plane down at a tiny Chinese town which had no Western-style accommodations, but did have a local missionary who turned out to be one of Dr. Coffin's old Union students...
...Orleans Jazz (Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...
...third of the entire budget-and most of it could not be cut (e.g., $5 billion for interest on the national debt was untouchable). The Republicans, bent on economy, could squeeze only $94 million from the operating funds, which would be no more than a dribble in the bucket of $6 billion promised savings. But they left out $800 million for refunds on overpaid income taxes. Democrats cried "phony," pointed out that the money would have to be paid anyway...