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...scours are diarrhea. "I had some scour stopper in a bucket, but it was too late." Chester Hickle wandered back in, recalling a violent time, years ago, when a "man as innocent as you or me was over there in the cafe eating a bowl of soup or chili and they just shot him off the stool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

While officials on both sides characterized the agreement as fair. Harvard officials can't help but have smarted from the hurt. Not that the specific sum was much more than a drop in the bucket in Harvrd's vast financial reserves. But the agreement implicitly acknowledged the correctness of at least part of the bureaucrats' position in a long-standing government-academia argument over how to account for federal research monies...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Harvard's money woes | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...suddenly become engulfed in flames in front of Sever at exactly 11 o'clock one morning, and the December mugging in front of the Coop of a Salvation Army "Santa" who subsequently set off in pursuit, bell ringing furiously, of the "thieves" as they ran down Boylston Street with bucket, tripod...

Author: By John B. Fox jr., | Title: Climbing On Board | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

...rugby player David J. Heffernan '84 saw the situation more bleakly, calling the Senator's contribution "a drop in the bucket...

Author: By Lawrence J. Davis, | Title: Senator Kennedy Donates $200 To Send Rugby Club to Finals | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

Sage added that the proposed garage will help alleviate demand for parking spaces, but that it would only be "a drop in the bucket" in solving the Square's parking dilemma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking and Shops to Replace Service Station on Kennedy St. | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

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