Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within fifteen minutes after the alarm was sounded at 5:10, (the fire had been put out a half hour earlier with a bucket of water) the nine trucks (plus a couple of police cars) had the building surrounded. As a big hydraulic ladder crunched against the top of the building, two firemen rushed inside...
...bowler-hat and mink-coat contingent can now shop at Fortnum's for women's wear, men's clothing, leather goods, linens, even TV sets. A toy department offers miniature Rolls-Royces and hand-carved rocking horses. The gifts department has a $190 crystal champagne bucket and a $700 crocodile-skin desk set. There is also an antique department in which almost nothing is less than $1,000, and a boutique with the latest designs by St. Laurent. All of this change at first unsettled Fortnum's old customers. "It isn't that we have...
Three Out of Three. For sheer exuberance, though, nobody quite matched Spokane's Gerry Lindgren, 18, who hardly looks old enough to carry the water bucket for the best track and field team ever assembled in the U.S. A frail (120 Ibs.), squeaky-voiced high school graduate who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a biologist or a politician, Lindgren runs at least 200 miles a week-"in the sand like Herb Elliott, up hills like Peter Snell." But until last June, Lindgren had never run a 10,000-meter race...
...Science Museum of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute boasts 425 audience-participation devices ranging from a simple prism that refracts light rays to a 350-ton Baldwin locomotive that moves up and down a track. Boston's "science smorgasbord," as Director Henry Bradford Washburn calls it, includes a bucket pendulum that dribbles sand in harmonic patterns, a working cloud chamber, and a reproduction of a ship's bridge equipped with radar, sonar, gyroscopes, steering mechanism and a view of the Charles River...
...RUBBER has a Ferris wheel ride inside a six-story-tall rubber tire. There are bucket seats and a view from the top. Only three times around, though, and then you get parked...