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Word: bucketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it was the "Generalissimo," but it could just as easily have been the "Czar" or "Grand Poobah"--taught my crew how to wax floors. To wax correctly, one must saturate one's mop with wax and then squeeze exactly 70 percent of the wax back into the bucket. There is no other correct method...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Cleaning Toilets for the Core | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...worshiped here by the ancients transforms the acropolis to a glowing pink, visitors clamber beneath friezes of grapevines and laughing fauns. Zeinab, 26, a Shi'ite woman from Baalbek, trudges down the dusty road past the temple of Venus carrying a bag of bread and an empty bucket. She is eight months pregnant and wears a long, loose- fitting dress. "The tourists should wear what they want to. I like to see them," she says. "Since they started coming, it feels a lot freer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In Kidnapper Country | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...hallway, had been prepared for his use. Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman into a clinic examining room pricked themselves with a syringe that is believed to have been used on an AIDS patient. The youngsters plucked the needle from the covered red bucket into which dirty syringes are tossed; the pail was on an open shelf under a sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aids Moves in Many Ways | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Hadrick has the ball at the top of the key... She fakes left, drives right... A Brown defender tries to cut her off...gets there too late...bumps Hadrick on the hip... Hadrick keeps here eye on the basket and kisses the ball off the glass for the bucket and foul... The crowd erupts...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: 'O Captain, My Captain' | 2/28/1991 | See Source »

Brown rattled off eight more pionts before Mazanec hit a layup, Harvard's first bucket in nearly seven minutes. The Bears extended their lead to 14 points by the 11-minute mark...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Cagers Remain Undefeated With Overtime Win, 101-86 | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

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