Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drop in the Bucket." Never had Nationalist China more anxiously craved a sign that the U.S. recognized and responded to China's critical hour. What Chinese got, by way of a sign last week, was Secretary of State George Marshall's testimony before a Senate committee that, in his opinion, China would need economic support at the rate of $20 million a month, beginning next April and continuing for some 15 months...
...little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...
Administrative officials referred to their ruling of last year which prevented the installation of washing machines in the Houses as a cooperative measure. "Jest goes for show yer," saf da prominent maintenance expert, putting down his bucket of elbow-grease, "these new-faugled devices jest don't compare to old elbow-grease...
...artist who just happened to have some silly political quirks. But after leading a forbidden May Day parade he was beaten by cops until his body was covered with welts, thrown into solitary, and fed on what slops he could catch in his hands when the guard upturned the bucket. He spent a year in jail that time, and another on parole...
...Just a drop in the bucket compared to the men we could use," commented Lipton as he looked over the enrollment figures. Confirmation of Lipton's statement came from Norman H. Brooks '49, chairman of the Social Service Committee who said he could place 70 additional men immediately...