Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...
Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...
Back of the command post Colonel Toffey still sat on a tin bucket talking over the radio. "All right, Benny, all right," he said to Lieut. Benny Reece, one of the advanced unit commanders. "We're doing what we can. Don't get excited. Got many casualties? We'll try to get litter bearers up as soon as possible." Several Spitfires chased two German fighter-bombers which had just raided the beach. "The bastards," snorted Toffey...
...either TIME'S Army & Navy editors and their researchers ... or to their "baldheaded SPARS squeegeeing paint" (TIME, Dec. 20) a couple of clean rags, a bucket of "soujge" and another of fresh water to clean their paint-work...
...President slept on a rubber mattress stretched across two seats from which the backs had been removed. A green curtain hung about the improvised bed. The plane's remaining 26 bucket seats were for Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy, for the President's naval and military aides, his physician, a masseur, and his valet, Prettyman. Also taken along were a corps of six Filipino cooks from the Presidential yacht Potomac...