Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some areas of the city, black-market water was bringing 24? a bucket. Ships putting into port received only enough water to get them to the next stop. Building construction ground to a complete halt. Other industries were forced to close for a day. City authorities were even discussing the possibility of evacuating many of Bombay's 5,000,000 people to less arid regions of India...
...Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
...ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make...
...always, the Italians were there with gorgeous Ferraris, Maseratis, Lamborghinis and Lancias, plus a wicked-looking newcomer: the Bizzarrini G.T. America, which does up to 175 m.p.h. on its Corvette engine, has bucket seats that look more like astro naut couches. Cost...
...scrupulous about caviar, for instance, that he once opened seven jars in a row before finding one that he considered satisfactory. He insisted on hand-dried Baccarat glasses and the finest wines, although he would also serve a bottle of milk to lohn F. Kennedy in a silver ice bucket as if it were champagne...