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...last week gave Spain another $22.6 million in aid. But it was a loan long in the works and earmarked mostly for Spain's ailing railroads, and it was a mere drop in a leaky bucket...
...Marshall threw a couple of fistfuls of dirt all over my new clothes. In the first minute all of them knocked me down, rolled me in the dirt and said, 'O.K., now you can play a western.' " A few minutes later, Shirley doused her tormentors with a bucket of water. "Wouldn't you like to cool off, Charlie?" she asked. "From then on, they knew I wasn't a prima donna exactly, and whatever they wanted to say, they went right ahead. The language, oh golly...
...Proper procedure: move forward, throw out anchor or a bucket with a line on it for a sea anchor. Put on a life preserver. Fix the engine...
...under the naphtha jugs. Around them, convicts hopped up on dispensary narcotics and kitchen-made "pruno" alcohol brandished their meat axes and jittered wildly. Rawboned Sociologist Jones, 24, was twice sent out to tell Powell that any move would mean death to the hostages, and to report convict grievances (bucket toilets, young prisoners mixed with older men, a hated state parole commissioner). "It's tighter than hell," he said. "They're shook." Once he went back, as he had promised, to sit under the jugs; on the second trip Warden Powell refused his pleas to return...
...Fighting Pimps. Courage the cowboys had-enough to "charge hell with a bucket of water." as somebody said-but they were not necessarily dangerous. The Colt single-action .45 (Peacemaker) and the Colt .44 (Frontier), the preferred pistols in the West, were clumsy objects; they weighed 3 lbs. 1 oz.. stretched 10¼ in. from butt to sight. To learn the quick draw with this blunderbuss took a lot of practice, and the man who could fire it accurately beyond 20 ft. was rare. Nevertheless, the best of the gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted...