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Word: bucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will compete in the varsity division. The first event will be the "Happi Bagh" (elephant run), which is a sprint. Then comes the "Poni Cohn" (water thief), in which the elephants must carry a bucket of water in their trunks without getting the mahouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephant Race Will Attract Huge Crowd in California | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...flame danced on the point of the Space Needle at twilight on opening night last week, President Gandy looked out through his office window. Said he: "There's nothing there that hasn't meant at least a quart of blood drawn, and in some cases a bucket. But to tell you the truth, I'm amazed at the whole thing." A lot of other people will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Water While It Rolls. But for those not so politically sensitive, there were plenty of other foreign models, as well as the "1962½" models from Detroit. Sports cars, once a European specialty, are sprouting in the American lines. Oldsmobile's is a coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars: New Wheels | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...flight and the waist of the car is slightly indented in Coke-bottle fashion-a design feature previously used only on supersonic jet fighters. Inside, reflecting Egbert's love of flying, the Avanti resembles a plush airplane with instruments set in neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front, and a bucket bench for two in the rear. With a fiber-glass body mounted on a steel chassis and an engine of 300 h.p. or more, the Avanti will go from standing to 60 m.p.h. in a scant 6.7 sec.-a performance rivaling that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Avanti, Studebaker! | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...electronic trap that cops use to nab speeders. Fastest of all were the Class AA dragsters, driven by such seasoned campaigners as 28-year-old Pete Robinson, an auto-parts manufacturer from Atlanta, who is the current U.S. champion. Stripped to the bare essentials-a naked steel frame, a bucket seat, racing tires, a "go pedal," and sometimes a drag parachute for braking-the "Double A-ers" are such specialized machines that they cannot even get started without a push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sudden Irons | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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