Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand dollars a week looks large in the absolute, but it breaks down to only a quarter per man. From one point of view, the Harvard contribution may be only a drop in the bucket; from another, it is the finger in the dike...
...dump-it-in-a-bucket method has not been approved by OCD for civilian defense workers. Reason: OCD thinks that U.S. citizens, confronted with a real air raid, might not have the necessary coolness for such an aggressive technique...
...Chungking Ferry-regulars, veterans of U.S. airlines, reserve officers-had never seen such incredible, sloshing weather. No longer did they sound the old pilots' wheeze, that even the crows were walking. The new one was that the fish were drowning. Near one Ferrying Command base the skies bucket down 500 inches of rain in the five months of the monsoon (average New York City annual rainfall, 43 in.), and up to now the rainmaker was on schedule...
...Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the A.V.G. will come out to rescue them. When the A.V.G. is busy elsewhere, they manage to get through anyhow...
...make one very interesting observation: laziness is the father of invention. His reasoning: In Piltdown days, thirsty cavemen had to run to the river for a drink, scurry back to their caves again. Go-getters didn't mind that chore, but some lazy caveman did. He invented the bucket...