Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dying were given first aid in kitchens and parlors as families worked together through the night, trying to rescue victims, many of whom were irrevocably trapped in the twisted steel. In a public bath, rows of bodies were laid out under blankets; under one white sheet stood a bucket containing a head and three legs. Hour after hour, the casualties were totted up in hospitals and mortuaries. The final casualty list: 88 dead, no seriously injured in the third worst rail crash in Britain's history...
...hotel waiting for a tardy officer, so eager was he to do a tour of the Point. He sat listening intently through a class lecture on military history (subject: Was Lee justified in his campaign at Antietam?), took the review of the parading corps of cadets in their tar-bucket hats and grey uniforms...
...have mobilized all their resources of manpower. In Anhwei, where no rain has fallen for two months, 9,000,000 peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan alone...
...whiff of the guano. He estimated the deposits held at least 100,000 tons and thought he knew how to go about getting it. Buying out the remaining leases, he went to U.S. Steel Corp.'s Consolidated Western Steel Division, asked it to stretch a huge cable-and-bucket rig from the caves to the canyon's south rim, where the guano could be trucked to market. Specifications: the cable must be strong enough to withstand 100-m.p.h. gales, the bucket big enough to cart 3,500 lbs. of guano in one scoop...
...heroics, bent not on expressing himself-like the protoplasmic Lennies, the torturedly egocentric Eugene Gants-but on knowing himself. Contrasting "romanticism" and "classicism," the English critic T. E. Hulme once wrote: "To the one party, man's nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never to get too big for their buckets...