Word: bucket
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...action in Metamorphoses is structured around a large wading pool, and the stage devices are so elegantly simple, they provoke a smile even as they heighten the drama. When God creates light, an actor lights a cigarette; for a fatal storm at sea, a bare-chested thug tosses a bucket of water at the captain and wrestles him into submission in the water. Some stories are enacted, others narrated; still others are a deft mix of the two. A few good-natured modernisms are sprinkled in, but they never interfere with the seriousness and earnest romanticism of these tales...
...witty than I could probably wrangle something out of “fly ball” or “wild pitch.” The Giants’ Jeff Kent joked that he would invite Johnson to hunt on his ranch in the offseason, and give him a bucket of balls instead of a shotgun...
Good thing they did. The experiment established that large molecules could be mechanically manipulated. "Until recently," says Robert Tjian, Bustamante's colleague at Berkeley, "we all studied complex molecular machines as populations--what we call bucket biochemistry." The approach has its uses, but it reveals little about how the machines work or what forces they can generate...
...Sorry, fellas, it might be a while. While the industry suffered its worst spring since the dawn of jet flight, JetBlue is making money and on track to carry three million passengers this year. That's just a drop in the 670-million-passenger airline biz bucket, but it's enough to keep the airline growing and adding planes and flights. At low, low prices - tickets from JFK to its newest city, New Orleans, start at $69 one way, and even last-minute fares (where the big carriers usually start using commas in their prices) to Oakland...
...started to fret. The number, the Administration said, was just too big. Other donor nations were also concerned that the figure was unrealistic. The sum would be hard to raise. Moreover, a U.N. official explained, Washington was concerned that the U.S. contribution would "look like a drop in the bucket...