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Word: bucketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came a key play. Down two points, Dover faked Dotson onto the floor and drove underneath, only to miss the layup. McMillian quickly tallied a bucket to make it four points and then hit two free throws after a strange foul called on Gallagher during a torrid fight for a rebound of a missed Harvard shot...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Hoopsters Battle Cornell Tonight, Eye Columbia Rematch Next Week | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

...false information, such as an incorrect serial number, in a last-gasp effort to show that the document was a lie. After he had signed it, the Koreans rewarded Bucher with a huge plate of eggs. He could not eat them. Crushed, Bucher tried to drown himself in a bucket of water in his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PUEBLO: AN ODYSSEY OF ANGUISH REPLAYED | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...example, was Bucher given as his first command so highly sensitive an assignment? And why, once he had been given command, was he not allowed access to the classified material for which he might ultimately be responsible? Why was an ancient rust bucket like Pueblo chosen for conversion into a spy ship? Why were Bucher's requests for essential gear and weaponry repeatedly turned down? Why, if the Navy lacked the money to equip the ship properly, was Pueblo stationed off North Korea in the first place? Why no air cover? And why did the Navy steadfastly assume that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PUEBLO: AN ODYSSEY OF ANGUISH REPLAYED | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...recalls the days when as a gawky youngster in Rayville, La., he spent long hours in his backyard shooting a small rubber ball through a bottomless wash bucket. He was always dreaming of his idols, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, and today he talks of little but how "great, just great" it is to be playing against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: E for Everything | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Brian, Calvin, Bobby, Nick, Del, Bruce, Mike, Fran, Dick, Pat, Kyle, Ed, Fred, and all the others. You created something around this place which made everyone sit up and take notice, and you gave us all a bucket of pride. Thanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bucket of Pride | 12/4/1968 | See Source »

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