Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also shoots some close-up footage, using the same technique as with the chase: a camera fixed beside Napoleon's boat. From the distant view of great waves, we are brought suddenly into the thick of the storm, the young man furiously and futilely bailing his wreck with a bucket...
...blue-suited SWAT team rushes sporadically through cell blocks, sometimes after midnight, to shake down prisoners for weapons. More than 100 assorted shivs and shanks (rodlike weapons often shaped from mop-bucket handles), as well as revolvers, have been seized. A sniper in one of the guard towers has shoot-to-kill orders. A trailer van bulging with shotguns, tear gas and riot gear waits outside the prison walls...
...yelled "I'm the judge and the executioner too" as he fired into a prisoner's temple. A man I was talking to in our cell was suddenly separated from me and shot through the head by an Islamic Guard. I was given a mop and a bucket and ordered to "clean up the mess." "Your turn is coming," the Guard told...
...little time to vacillate, however, for my turn in line had come. I slumped into a deep bucket seat, pulled the thick harness over my head, and pressed it to my chest so hard that I could barely breathe. I don't remember the ride, but I left it a bit numb...
...some enervating procedural wrangles lead to a compromise cut of $100,000, which really means property values and profligate pedagogy pretty much as usual in Weston. "It's a drop in the bucket," says Board of Finance Member Karl Nelson. "The board of ed can cover that cut just out of its contingency funds, and nothing will change." Nor will it, apparently, until the townspeople either run out of tax money or decide to take a long, hard look at their school system...