Word: bucket
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...Marines and sailors at nearby Camp Lejeune have left, with 3,000 more scheduled for deployment. War may be not much more than a bar argument where you live, but here it's a bucket of ice water in the face. At the base theater, 600 Marines pack the joint but not because Catch Me If You Can is playing. They're working on their wills Moonie-style under the direction of a base attorney. One wants Over the Rainbow played at his funeral. Another wills all 50 guys in his company $10 each. His savings just barely cover...
Despite Peljto’s early defensive dominance, the Elis kept it close throughout the first frame. With 8:55 to go until halftime, Yale pulled within a bucket of the Crimson, trailing...
...defense beyond the arc had been quite different the night before. Princeton leading scorer Spencer Gloger had a dismal outing Friday, missing all seven of his attempts from long range. Senior forward Sam Winter guarded Gloger for most of the night, and Gloger’s only easy bucket came off a late fast break...
Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure...
...incendiary bombs were so intensely hot that, of the night's 12,300 mortalities, the bodies of many of those who were trapped in underground shelters shriveled to the size of dolls. "A crying boy in an air force uniform came out of the cellar, a covered enamel bucket in his hand," an anonymous survivor remembers. "It contained his parents." The military details of the Allied air warfare on Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described by professional historians. Yet the suffering of those who experienced the bombing has largely been relegated to fireside tales, memoirs...