Word: bucket
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...treat it as a notorious celebrity we watch from afar, fascinated but removed, until we have no choice, preferring myth to truth. Do we raise the odds of dying well if we pitch our tents within sight of the cemetery, feel the cold earth and vow to make a bucket list, make resolutions, make amends? Ten million people watch Professor Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube; see the shining, dying man; and quietly promise themselves to shift out of neutral, stop being stupid about the stupid things. I celebrate Daddy's Deathday for who he was and what...
...though he described the coming months’ tasks with precision and authority, he was barely conscious of his own speech. Zalathal’s flanks were dark with sweat, and The Stable Boy, now shirtless, was pouring cool water from a bucket all down the curve of the beast’s spine. Frederick gave himself completely to the scene before him. He wondered what The Stable Boy would say if Frederick offered to rub him down...
...last-minute change to the tennis competition and unfair multiplier that puts bigger dorms at a disadvantage” has resulted in “mortal combat” with rival Apley Hall. According to the Frosh IM Web site, individual events within the Yard Bucket Competition are weighted according to a normalized scale from one to four based on the actual number of people in the dorm. Thus Canaday, the largest dorm, is multiplied by one. In an e-mail sent Tuesday, the freshman IM coordinators announced a change in format because it was “impossible...
...East Village, was mentally ill and thus was not accountable for the slaying of Monika Beerle. They also exonerated him for supposedly dismembering her body parts, cooking those body parts into soup that he served to the homeless, and for leaving her bleached skull in a bucket of kitty litter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Today the story has been mythicized, often extrapolated beyond belief. “Yeah, I tasted the soup,” a homeless man once claimed to me, “and I liked it too.” At the time, however...
...Turnovers continue to spell disaster for the Crimson. After another Yale bucket down low, Harvard quickly turns the ball over and is forced to foul to stop the fast break. Clearly frustrated, Brad Unger picks up a technical foul. Being that this is his last collegiate game of his career, I think it's safe to say that things aren't going quite the way he envisioned before the game. [Yale 60, Harvard...