Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of amateur diggers sifted through every bucket of excavated earth, collecting more than 40 cartons of potsherds. As each block was recovered, its precise location was noted on a chart so that archaeologists could later determine exactly where the monument stood and how it fell. Eventually, the young archaeologists found and excavated 58 large blocks, which they then correctly reassembled into a section of the ancient monument on an undisturbed area of the basement floor...
...triggered hot competition in the sporty-specialty-car field (see following story), the changes for 1968 are modest: one makes air scoops on the hood standard instead of optional. The '68 Thunderbird is also virtually unchanged except for the substitution of a three-person front seat for two bucket seats...
...kept all his cash in a bucket; But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with...
...bucket, Nantucket. This innocent rhyme was instantly followed by innumerable sub-wits who varied the towns (Pawtucket, Manhasset), or thought that they could find a better last line. It is probably one or another coarse version of this that most lim erick fanciers remember...
...huge fires, scientists at the U.S. Forest Service's Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, established at Missoula, Mont., in 1960, are concentrating on prevention and early detection techniques. Their most dramatic accomplishment to date is the perfection of an aerial infrared scanner that can detect fire in a small bucket in a forest 15,000 feet below. Installed aboard a Convair, it has been flown over areas recently struck by lightning and has already picked up 220 fires-which show up as white spots in an infrared photograph. Forest rangers discovered that many were merely cookfires at camp sites...