Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanding colonel had a little villa with the unusual luxury of running water. But for conservation's sake he found it best to shut off the water part of the day; at such times a bucket of water was kept beside the toilet to be used in flushing...
Came some brass hats to inspect the hospital. Presently the ranking officer of the party disappeared into the toilet and the colonel heard an unusual fuss. He went in to see what the trouble was and found the officer standing on the seat, pouring the bucket of water into the overhead reservoir, preparing to pull the chain. That, someone remarked, was what the Army calls "going through channels...
Abdominal Mouth. One day when Tom was nine years old his father brought home some hot chowder in a beer bucket. Thinking it was beer, Tom took a swig, burned his esophagus so badly that the doctors could not keep it open as it healed. So for 47 years Tom has fed himself through an opening surgeons made in his abdominal wall. He chews his food, then spits it into a funnel attached to a rubber tube which runs through the opening to his stomach. A sensitive, self-respecting little man, with a peppery Irish temper, Tom has kept...
Within the Law. In Tulsa, a man who was bothered by drunks under his bedroom window got in touch with police, conscientiously inquired about his rights, won official support of his plan, thereupon took a bucket of water to the window and poured...
...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...