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Word: bucketful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school system without parents at its foundation is just like a bucket with a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quotations from a Spellbinder | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Well, how could it be otherwise? Every time he sends some responsibility to Congress they "pour it back" because there's an election coming up. Every special interest group in the country stands around with its bucket - many of them rusty and full of holes - saying "fill it up." Carter is a very remarkable man with tremendous forbearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

SOME TIME DURING the night of September 13, 1974, an unseen group of bucket-bearing revolutionaries plastered every flat surface in downtown Luanda, the capital of Angola, with signs bearing the gold star symbol of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They did it in spite of the official 2 a.m. curfew imposed by the Portuguese Army, who were everywhere in their clattering three-man jeeps with the American-made .50-caliber machine-guns peeking out over the windshields. It's possible that the Portuguese looked the other way--after their bitter 15-year guerrilla war against...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Book Review | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...from California--he's one of the initial organizers. So's the lady in the red dress who's talking economics. You've never seen or heard of either of them before. And the Reverend? Absolutely essential: "Put your hands on the radio and your two dollars in the bucket if you don't want the organizers to be left footing a $15,000 bill...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Boston-to-D.C.Bakke Blues | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

...decided to hang up his water bucket next year to devote full time to his senior thesis. "I'm sure I'll regret it," he said. "I know this sounds corny, but I think that managing has made me grow as a person at Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: The Unsung Heroes | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

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