Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eastbound from Okinawa, the big Air Force C-54 droned steadily into the night. At .glowing instrument board and hood-lighted desk the six men of its crew worked. In the cabin the passengers, 31 Spokane-bound soldiers of the 98th Bomber Group, shifted uncomfortably in their bucket seats and tried to sleep...
...this week-were just about the last of the big unions still haggling over their 1948 wage boosts. The rest of labor seemed ready to go to the well again. Arriving in Portland, Ore. for the C.I.O. convention, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther lowered the first bucket...
...Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...
...anonymously lit fire started at 11:30 p.m., drawing heads from all the windows in the yard and screams of delight from the occupants. Lowell House Janitor A1 Roach hurried to the scene with a bucket and the fire died in 15 minutes without any damage resulting...
Their first greeting from their hosts was a bucket of cold water: the Soviet Foreign Office reported that Molotov was "out of town," on vacation. His second-in-command, Andrei Vishinsky, was also out of town-indisputably in Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...