Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veritas. In State College, Pa., after Dean of Admissions William S. Hoffman retired from his job at Pennsylvania State College, he let a secret out: he was the student who dumped that bucket of water on faculty members 40 years...
Digging by Hand. The drill ran into trouble just short of the 100-ft. mark. In relays, men were lowered by a hoisting bucket to dig the rest of the way by hand. It was grueling work. Dirt and rocks as big as a man's head had to be hoisted up bucket by bucket. Burly Bill Yancey, a 38-year-old sewerage contractor who had been on a wartime underwater demolition team, dug for two hours and 20 minutes before he was hauled...
Then, in the glare of the television lights, a doctor stepped into the bucket and was lowered into the shaft. A few minutes later, the announcement came at last over the loudspeaker: "Kathy is dead and apparently has been dead since she was last heard speaking." Kathy's body had been found just below the tunneled opening. Her knees were wedged against her chest. Kathy had fallen into a coma, and then died because her cramped body could not get enough oxygen. There was no pain in her face...
Finally, "Rudolf's Job," a tale about two German schoolboys, is pleasant enough. Perhaps Rudolf should have used that bucket of flour on Father Gerhart after all. As for the poems in Signature, they all seem to be well-written, particularly Anabel Handy's "The Hermitage," which contains one of the nicest similes I have ever seen. Signature must be commended for its policy of publishing this type poem and story...
...Manhattan concertgoers holding their breath last week. He had also found plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), Heifetz grins: "I've divorced that fellow Jim Hoyl" (his Tin Pan Alley alias...