Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under a blazing sun and cloudless sky, Vincent Olebogeng strolls past an ore bucket spray-painted MERRY XMAS 86. Though the temperature is 87 degreesF, Olebogeng considers the weather cool relief. Thirty minutes earlier, he was two miles underground, moving tons of dusty gray ore in the almost unbearable heat of Durban Deep, a gold mine at Roodeport, ten miles west of Johannesburg. He has worked nearly 300 days in the past year, but he will not work tomorrow. After the paymaster hands him a brown envelope containing his monthly wages of 270 rand ($122), Olebogeng is ready to travel...
...Iranians and the Iraqis had purchased around $20 billion in arms between them during the course of that horrible war they're having. I think in the past year we estimated between $3 billion and $4 billion. So $12 million is not much of a drop in the bucket...
After dominating play for the first 10 minutes, the Crimson (now 3-3) failed to make a bucket for six minutes to wind up trailing by 14 at the half...
...beginning, Man stumbled upon a round ball and a cylindrical bucket in an open yard. Inclined to both science and activity, he devised a game whereby one tossed the ball into the bucket and was awarded two points for his efforts. Man named this game basketball and saw that it was good...
...back home to Harlem for the finale, Queenie Pie is unmistakably the work of the grand Duke. In the pit, the Duke Ellington Orchestra steps through the score's uptown opulence with high style, trumpets growling and keyboards swinging, while onstage, members of Director-Choreograp her Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theater juke and okeydoke their way through kinetic, hyperactive routines...