Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the motives, Khrushchev's decision was like a bucket of cold water to the U.S.'s new leaders. For Adlai Stevenson, dedicated to lessening cold war tensions, and long contemptuous of the brusque counterblast as a technique of foreign policy, the week had come as a shock, stimulating the strongest kind of change in a man essentially unschooled in the closeup rough-and-tumble of Communist diplomacy. For the new President of the U.S., Russia's attitude was a rude reminder that although the Kremlin's tactics might change, its strategy most emphatically does...
...Navy went down like a bucket Saturday night, as varsity swimmers toppled records and came up with surprises to sink 56 to 39 the team that had sunk Yale...
They threw down old rugs or corrugated pasteboard to cover the dirt floors. For heat they had potbellied stoves, some made from old oil drums. Their light came mainly from kerosene lamps flickering dismally behind tent flaps. They carried water by the bucket from Owner Towles's house. A one-hole outhouse served the entire community...
...system particularly suitable for the missile bases. From local deep wells, highly mineralized water will soon be pumped into a dozen desalting units with a daily capacity of 500,000 gallons, enough to supply a town of 5,000. That amount of water is only a drop in the bucket to the U.S. as a whole. But the significance of desalinization research goes beyond its immediate importance to national defense, looks ahead a scant 20 years, when Americans will be using 600 billion gallons of water a day-more than today's readily available supply...
...Magnificent Seven (United Artists) suggests that, after many a disappointment with Hollywood and television westerns, U.S. reviewers and distributors are so saddle-sore and range-blind that they cannot tell a ring-tailed snorter from a bucket-foot mule. Greeted by a flurry of inattention from the critics, this western has been hastily remaindered into the neighborhood circuits in the hope that it will soon get profitably lost in the Christmas rush. The loss will be bearable: Seven is not a great picture-not nearly as good as the Japanese Magnificent Seven (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956), the brilliant episode...