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...engineer sees the bed in flames, runs into the hallway, finds a janitor's closet containing a sink and a bucket, turns the water on high, fills the bucket, and drenches the fire, in the process making a wet sooty of everything...
...physicist enters his room and sees the inferno. He pauses to make some rough measurements, runs into the hallway making order of magnitude calculations, finds the bucket, fills it with just enough water, and precisely pours it where it has the greatest effect, wasting little water and minimizing damage...
Where they got the name: We were in Currier House one night, going through the dinner line, and we came across this big, putrid bucket of stuff, with this film over the top of it like a skin. It looked so foul. Then we looked up at the title, and it said Steamship of Beef. So, we said, "That's us; That's the presonification...
Former Vice President Dan Quayledropped out of the 1996 presidential race. Quayle adviser Mark Goodin said recent health problems had nothing to do with the decision; instead, Goodin said, Quayle's failure to raise a substantial campaign war chest so far "threw a bucket of cold water on his enthusiasm." Which presidential hopeful benefits?TIME religion writer Richard N. Ostlingnotes the ex-Veep was the last "cultural" conservative left with substantial support from the religious "pro-family" movement, now an important Republican constituency. Ironically, Ostling says,Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole-- who is generally perceived as a political moderate...
...documented. Perhaps his greatest crime, though, was icing, which is a minor infraction in hockey but a major felony when it involves Tim McCarver. During the celebration that followed the Braves' win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1992 National League championship series, Sanders dumped a bucket of ice water on McCarver, a cbs announcer who had criticized him for trying to play for both the Falcons in Miami and the Braves in Pittsburgh on the previous Sunday. "You guys don't know the real Deion," says defensive end Tim Harris. "Deion is good people...