Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Jenks, a Lynn, Mass. ironmaker, made the first fire engine in the United States in 1654. It consisted of a pump worked by relays of men at the handles and received its water supply from lines of bucket passers who dumped the water into the cistern...
...water is going to be used for a private industry in a country with serious human rights problems, that would get a negative vote. But if the water is going to a slum area, where people now have to walk two miles to carry water by bucket, that's entirely different. We might very well favor such a loan...
Harvard was back ahead, 17-15, when Bobby Allen popped from 20 but McDonald hit his third bucket of the half to even it up. Midway through the first half Frank Konstantynowicz netted a fadeaway baseline jumper as the Crimson's lead mounted to 26-21. The Quakers regained a 31-30 edge on a Tim Smith layup with 7:33 left in the half and never fell behind again until the closing minutes...
Then Hooft decided it was time for a soliloquy. He bagged a double pump drive, picked up a bucket underneath and dropped a brace of corner jumpers. Allen then drilled home a pair and the gap was cut to 69-65 with 10:20 left to play...
...tongue-lashing, it had a delayed effect. SMU guard Mary "Downtown" Hill swooshed home three unanswered long-range missiles before All-Ivy standout Wendy Carle answered the rainmakers with a nifty maneuver underneath. The sophomore forward finished with 14 points, several coming on patented hook-layup drives to the bucket...