Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Geneva, and the hotel heating is making Hillary Clinton thirsty. She slips out of her room and heads down to the ice machine. A tall, broad-shouldered man is filling his own ice bucket. He turns as she approaches, and in their first moment of shocked mutual recognition, the First Lady realizes this is an encounter that could make all that messy Whitewater business be forever forgotten...
...extension project lengthening the MBTA Red Line through Harvard. Perhaps it is best, though, that the plaque does not go into details about the exact cause of John's death--it was a particularly nasty case. As superintendent of the project, Kelly was directing a crane, lowering an empty bucket into the excavation site for the subway tunnel. So engrossed was he in this responsibility that he failed to notice when the 25-foot crane inexplicably began to teeter. A Cambridge patrolman shouted at Kelly to "get out of the way," but noise prevented him from hearing the warning signal...
...basically have what I'd call an aggrandized champagne bucket," Osofsky said...
...arrived at the hotel at the end of the world in the middle of a rainstorm, a waitress was positioning a gleaming silver ice bucket to catch the drops from a leaky roof. I knew this place had class...
...study of genetics has always been a contentious issue. In 1978 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard Professor Emeritus E. O. Wilson was interrupted in a speech on sociobiology by a protester who poured a bucket of ice water over his head...