Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent three vessels to the U.S. to take its nationals back home. But even high Japanese Army officers were not too happy about the prospect. Commenting on Japan's present predicament, Colonel Kikujiro Okada of the War Ministry said: "We cannot just die off, smothering in an iron bucket clamped over our head, and at the same time we cannot remove the bucket; therefore there is no other way but to go forward and prepare for the worst...
...different tastes of the three springs; the Gudgers' kitchen bucket with its "fishy-metallic kind of shine and grease beyond any power of cleaning"; the exact texture of the house's pine siding; the stinking clay yard, and "the chilly and small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...
...nimbly up an iron ladder to the dome, picked up a hot bomb, hurled it to the ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...
...floor. But the pull of England was strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...
Priorities for Brazil's steel plant will be followed by a general program of priorities and quotas for all of Latin America's more important needs. In the priorities line, Latin America (whose essential needs are a drop in the bucket of total U.S. production) will stand in front of U.S. civilian orders, just behind defense requirements...