Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bucket Brigade. The House Appropriations Committee reported out its ninth bill covering 33 independent Government offices. The report sizzled. "Almost nowhere in the Government is there any semblance of cost accounting. . . . Billions of dollars have been spent which can never be properly accounted for. . . ." The committee recommended giving the 33 offices a total of $8,168 million-$330 million less than they had asked...
...July 31. Instead they would recess until next January, with the provision that Congress could be recalled by either the majority or minority leadership. Republicans felt they could not leave the country in sole charge of Harry Truman. They wanted to be ready to rush up like a bucket brigade any time next fall if fire broke...
Qualification. In Spokane. Wash., a husband denied, during divorce proceedings, that he beat his wife over the head seven times with a broiler; it was only three times, he averred, and with a lunch bucket...
...thousands of London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...
...afternoon of the fifth day, when two power-company linemen found him, he simply lay still and said, "Hello." They lifted the car off his mangled hand, wrapped him in their coats, dipped a canvas bucket into the creek and put its rough, wet edge to his lips. At the hospital in Oakland a doctor said he believed that the hand would not have to be amputated-just some fingers...