Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes the hours of flight a competition in painful restraint...
...cannot keep pace with its population, which is increasing at a rate unequaled anywhere else in the world. The average Puerto Rican earned only $14 a week. In New York, he could confidently expect to double his wages. Some dreamed of their children becoming doctors, lawyers, nurses. In the bucket seats of a DC-3, passage was only...
...good old days. In successive columns, Blanton revisited his one-room rural schoolhouse (the teachers are better-schooled, nowadays), his aunt's funeral (no flowers, but plenty of lugubrious singing), a riotous Democratic political rally (music by Barney's Band, composed exclusively of Republicans) and a bucket-brigade fire...
...night wore on, rescue workers-now numbering 150-tried a new scheme: men with pneumatic jack hammers began the ear-splitting job of tearing up the garage floor. A huge bucket crane rumbled ponderously into the garage. The rescuers began digging a deep slanting ditch to connect with the well. All night, all through the early morning, as the frantic work went on, people took turns kneeling at the mouth of the well to encourage Dominick...
...Then douse that pitcher with a bucket of ice water occasionally and pretty soon he won't know whether or not he has his hands on," Bolles explained. "That's what happens to the boys out on the river...