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Word: bucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that very principle a couple of years ago. He attended a demonstration with soil samples, one lifted from a field planted conventionally, the other under residue management. The first sample was a chunk of earth devoid of worms and compacted by the relentless assault of heavy equipment. A bucket of water poured on top of that soil ran off to the sides. The other sample was spongy loam abundant with worms, and the water disappeared on its surface and in a few seconds ran out the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Revolution on the Farm | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...NCAA seminfinal match on Saturday, it was freshman Sarah Winters who pulled the bucket up and found a four-goal performance...

Author: By Andrew J. Arends, | Title: A Team With Something Extra | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...move. At the front end, there are only bacteria. Farther down you can find worms, shrimp, and then fish. "When we wanted to start the plant running, we needed all the little beasties you find in nature, so we went to a few ditches around Providence and collected a bucket of slop, then poured that mess into our tank...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Sun Worshippers | 5/13/1992 | See Source »

Americana: Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television Dances With the Reaper | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...demeanor reflect the in-your-face bravado of black urban adolescents and the rebellious fantasies of those in the suburbs. Taking direct cues from his audience, Simmons told Run-DMC to wear their dark glasses and black leather suits onstage and LL Cool J to retain his slouchy, bucket- shaped Kangol hat. He also encouraged Public Enemy to be politically controversial and BWP (Bytches with Problems) to be sexually explicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Impresario of Rap | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

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