Word: bucketfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dispute flared shortly after Kenner Products, which makes the Savage Mondo Blitzers line of action toys, said it will bow to protests against the gross-out figures by changing some of their names. Although such characters as Barf Bucket, Snot Shot and Bad Fart will remain on store shelves, they could become less irritating to parental ears...
...Those meetings were hard. The Japanese are good businessmen. They're solid. They have one position. They all know it. So those were not easy discussions, but they were meaningful. The numbers are very small -- the size they're talking about is a drop in the bucket. The point is, they are talking about what it would mean to sell cars through their dealers and to reduce the cost of distribution. The other part is up to us. We've got to display our goods, sell our goods, work very hard at whatever it takes...
...Niles was instructed only to listen and not to broach any new American ideas. Congress voted just before Thanksgiving to put up $400 million to help the U.S.S.R. and its republics dismantle nuclear weapons, but the Administration has yet to plan how it will disburse that drop in the bucket...
...hardware store. If this sounds exaggerated, consider Owen's passionate discussion of "The Joy of Joint Compound." He writes that "once, when I was resurfacing the ceiling of my daughter's bedroom, I stepped down from the stool on which I had been standing and into an open bucket of joint compound. The smooth white material felt cool and luxurious against my foot, which, as luck would have it, was bare." Mental-health professionals and spouses of Skilsaw fondlers will recognize that luck had nothing to do with...
Need a crystal ice bucket for the office? The price isn't bad: just $83. How about a handsome garment bag? Only $197.50, compared with $395 at a typical luggage shop. A Polaroid Spectra camera will run you $99.57. Buy one at a Washington camera store...