Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story of this gentlest of war films is true, or so its producers claim: a French soldier working in a German prison farm escapes, making himself invisible by carrying a bucket and borrowing a cow, a two-tone job with fetching eyelashes. The two set out for the French border 400 miles away. The arrangement works beautifully; Marguerite feeds Fernandel when he is hungry, and he tells stories to her when she is bored. The Germans never tumble. Eventually they reach the Rhine, and by this time Fernandel and Marguerite are in love. All the bridges have been bombed...
When he is in his palace, the bishop of one of the largest Roman Catholic dioceses in the world rolls out of a hammock at 3:45 every morning and pads barefoot across the rough wood floor to wash in a bucket of cold water. Then, in a grey cassock, red skullcap, and big, gold pectoral cross, he hurries next door to the cathedral to say Mass. His congregation is a ragged handful of fishermen and their barefoot wives; their boats pull out after the service just as the sun is reddening the Amazon...
...workers dug deeper, they began the first thorough housecleaning that the rooms had had in nearly 20 centuries. Bucket after bucket of earth was lifted out of the first room, and Carettoni spotted faint patterns on the inner plaster walls-well-preserved frescoes of the long-gone Augustan period...
...charm of ^-dropping has its limits, but Ruark rambles entertainingly about hunting, about shipping out on a rust-bucket freighter, and about the Old Man's tactful peace overtures to a Boy who has run away and who wishes his pride allowed him to run home again. It may occur to the reader that what the author has preserved is not merely leaf pressings of his own boyhood. The time has passed already, for instance, when most boys in the U.S. dreamed for three months a year of the opening of quail season. For that matter, the time...
...stepped up production to 114,276 cars, the best of the year, though 21% below last year's fast pace. To keep up with the rising sales of compacts, automakers devoted 35% of car production to them-the highest percentage yet. Two new cars joined Detroit's bucket-seat brigade of compacts: Oldsmobile's F85 Cutlass and American Motors' Custom 400 Rambler American. The II compacts now are available in 97 models...