Word: bucketes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grizzled, gregarious Writer-Flyer Galdwell a foaming bucket of the best propwash for a crack job of hangar-flying...
...only means now available -such a force could be maintained only by prodigious effort and a bigger fleet of transports than China has yet seen. Even if Burma is reopened, the Burma Road's previous top capacity of 15,000 tons a month would hardly wet the bucket. That is why Chennault dreams of a seaport near his operational bases...
...Shea, I really heard a good one, Boyce," Huey stammered as he finished another tankard of Cahill. "It's rumored the Maroon and Gould's gonna play the Crimson if Jawn'll Lennon a few men. Just the same we'll Slater them and toss them into that bucket O'Brien...
...system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast...
...continued pensively: "Johnny's in New York." "Now, Johnny," interrupted Mrs. Williams, "you know what happened to Johnny. Why, he died. You know that." "Oh, that's right," agreed John L. vaguely. He spat wide of the bucket again, glanced at the ceiling, where a square foot of plaster was missing. "I don't remember much about Paper Doll, but I did most of the writing on Dardanella. I gave it to him and said take it and go along with...