Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nurse Buss slips down to the cafeteria to haul back a bucket of ice. "My major cure," she notes. "When in doubt, put ice on it." She flushes an amorous couple from the girls' room in the back. "We were just talking," the boy protests. The kids are already lining up outside her office: one girl is there for iron pills to treat her anemia--a poor substitute, notes Buss, for what she really needs, which is a decent diet. Another has a bruised hand from a fight over the weekend; a boy wants Tylenol for a stomachache; she gives...
...rehearsal when I'm not doing much, we'll play a mock game of 'paper, rock, scissors' where I win every single time. If I went to a party, and they didn't have enough to drink, they'd be like 'get over here, we've got a bucket of ice--change this into something!'...Some people say they're really reluctant to piss me off now, because any condemnation I make 'carries so much weight...
...drop in the bucket for Harvard, and it gives the new Institute a chance to start with something because it has no alums of its own," she said...
...Bucket not included...
...They wrote my name on a piece of paper, put it in a big bucket and picked me out of it," explains Chantaneice Kitt, 8, who has been in the violin program for two years. The lottery is Roberta's way of asserting that music is for all children, not just the gifted or privileged. Her students--and her vocal cords--sometimes pay the price for her passion. "She gets on your case and stuff," says Toussaint Stackhouse, 9, "but I like her the way she is. When we need help, she helps...