Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bucket-seated C-47, its U.S. Air Force insignia still showing faintly through a poor Iranian paint job, settled to the landing strip at Masjid-i-Sulaiman last week and rolled up to the hangar line. Out stepped Hussein Makki, firebrand of Iran's three-man Oil Liquidation Board, for a look at what an oilfield is like...
...Korean War, he said: "We are fighting for time . . . for us. There is always an emphasis on the casualties in Korea . . . But did it ever occur to you that [they] will be one small drop in the bucket from one of those horrible bombs of which we talk so much...
...margin was decisive. But Bratton's performance looked a lot more impressive after it turned out that he had fought the last eleven rounds under a double handicap: a broken right hand and a broken jaw. In his dressing room, Bratton, soaking his swollen right hand in a bucket of ice water, complained glumly: "You gotta hit 'em to make 'em respect you . . . and it hurt too much to hit him." Jubilant Kid Gavilan, first Cuban ever to win a world title,* happily verified Bratton's complaint: "He no never hurt...
...Louis Armstrong Story (Columbia 8 sides LP). Collectors who have been scrounging in secondhand stores for years in search of battered copies of Armstrong classics can relax and enjoy more than three hours of Satchmo's trumpeting-from the free-for-all New Orleans style (Gut Bucket Blues, Heebie Jeebies) to his comparatively slicked-up versions of Stardust and Body and Soul...
...didn't really have a set pattern," Smith pointed out, "which is probably why we lost. We were just supposed to crows the bucket on defense. Mr. Bee wasn't at all strict with us in practice, as I'd heard he was with his own boys. All of us were used to handling the ball a lot and he just sort of fitted us in where he thought we'd do the most good...