Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
After the six-minute mark, the Crimson consistently gave away one bucket for two, including eight points by Borchard and six by Cuffe, and with 14 minutes gone, they led, 27 to 18, and Tufts called time-out. After two baskets, one a pretty spinning jumper from the keyhole by Ide, the Jumbos' 6 ft., 6 in. center, the Crimson's lead was shaved to 28 to 22. But a long jumper by Donahue and two free throws by Danner raised the margin...
Once the U.S. decides to set a numerical limit on immigration, the question should not be what groups make up this total, Jaffe said. "Even if the present quota of 150,000 were made up of one or two racial groups, this would be a drop in the bucket for a population of 165,000,000," he stated. Jaffe suggested a new immigration act that has no national quotas, but sets a limit of ten per cent of the total for any one group of immigrants...
...then the campaign against Dubois began losing its comic aspects. Several weeks ago Havana's Radio Mambi started carrying, at 15-minute intervals, pleas for loyal Cubans to contribute their centavos to buy a huge bucket for Dubois to soak his head in. Anti-Dubois signs appeared on shop fronts on the Prado, Havana's main street. The press, especially the Communist daily Hoy, began denouncing Jules Dubois...
Sooner or later in the course of This Is Your Life, it was bound to happen; some hero would come along and kick over the bucket of treacle. It happened last week. The scene: a sports banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. When M.C. Ralph ("Happy") Edwards advanced on Correspondent and World Traveler Lowell Thomas with the familiar, savagely cheerful cry ("This is your life"), Thomas simply refused to play. An old hand at radio and TV himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created...