Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times) bought out Jack Daniel's stockholders and its Motlow brothers, who owned 55% of the company, took control of the distillery. The price: $20 million in cash. Jack Daniel's 54-bbl. daily production is only a drop in Brown-Forman's (500 bbls. daily) bucket. But the name is well worth the price. Brown-Forman President George Garvin Brown carefully and promptly announced that the Motlows will still run Jack Daniel's in the same old way. But it was still the kind of news to sadden whisky sippers everywhere, and none more than...
...mathematical assessment of military strength by Frederick Lanchester (Newman notes that abstract theories of science often turn out to be quite practical, "as if one bought a top hat for a wedding and discovered later, when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket"), and the two-dimensional world of Edwin A. Abbott, inhabited by characters cut from plane geometry...
...Village gossip assumes the worst, and Hatsue's father plays the ogre. In the popular Japanese tradition, true love of this kind is expected to end badly, preferably with a double suicide jump off the face of a cliff or into a volcano. Novelist Mishima resolutely avoids the bucket-of-tears finale for an imitation Western happy ending, which will startle readers by its incongruity. But love in Japan is not so much the book's real subject as love of Japan. The desire to evoke the spare, printlike beauty of their native land which animates Author Mishima...
...farm, would he be likely to be a penguin? Last week non-airmen could find the answer to that question (no) in a special 16,500-word dictionary of fly-talk put out by the Air University. The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet, raunchy for sloppy, zorch for excellent); it also uses ordinary words in some peculiar ways. Samples...
...conservative Daily Telegraph stiffly noted that "the New Pecksniff and Nation" recently observed its silver anniversary by serving "champagne by the bucket" to a "seething, shrieking mass" of left-wing politicians and "statesmenlike women. Not the 'people at the top' perhaps; but where...