Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more general interest is the short story, "The Case of the Too-Short Casket," which tells of an undertaker who is cutting corners to make a dollar. His technique is unfortunate, but his exclamations are delightful--"Well, here's a nice bucket o'worms." His colleagues are less colorful, but more devoted to their trade. Their distaste for their unscrupulous competitor is eased by their faith that, "Give him enough rope, he's sure to hand himself some...
...quiet but enthusiastic crowd, numbering 1500, contributed approximately $1000 to the "bucket brigade for Hungary." Several student organizations have already contributed another $2000, it was learned...
...pail of gasoline over the tank's engine compartment and leap back to shelter. As the tank took fire and its crew scrambled out of the turret, the young Tommy-gunner firing from the windows above would mow them down. An alternate system was to slosh a bucket of gasoline across a street and throw a match in it just as a Soviet tank plunged past...
...unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey bucket...
Afterward, Coach Michelosen and his assistants could find some small satisfaction in their narrow escape. Now the Panthers would surely get down to work: their opening game had been less a victory than a bucket of ice water in the face...