Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each black student must, therefore, act on his or her own. Each must, in the words of Booker T. Washington, "drop you bucket where you are," which means that each student must act within his or her immediate context, and wait not upon the weight of the herd to propel change...
...Dyke has an answer. "It would be unrealistic to assume we can change everything," she says. "But we do good. We're the drop in the bucket, but what we do is important...
...Sadat and Begin can even attempt peace in the Middle East with the absence of the many other Arab nations and the P.L.O. If the "Big Three" come up with a peace plan, who's going to accept it? It's like rnilking a cow without a bucket; you may get some fresh milk, but you can't get anybody to drink...
...bucket star Glenn Fine will not perform a helicopter-dunk on a breakaway lay-up this year...
Such detailed anecdotes keep Perrin from falling victim to his "Wooden Bucket Principle": "By this I mean a tendency to imagine almost anything in the country as simpler and more primitive and kind of nicer than it really...