Word: bucketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knocked out since Max Schmeling did it 15 years ago, Rocky said the proper thing: "I'm glad I won, but I'm sorry I had to do it to Louis." Joe, accepting condolences in a gloomy dressing room while soaking his bruised left fist in a bucket of ice, refused to state flatly that he was through. But the sportwriters were already writing their farewells to Joe-and sizing up a likely new champion...
Many others at Hungry Horse in addition to Ruder have been TIME-readers of long standing. Cableway Operator Ben Ostrom, 47, who controls tons of-concrete swinging in a huge bucket a quarter-mile across a canyon, said he has read TIME for 15 or 20 years, even borrowed copies of the Atlantic Edition from friends on a 1947 visit to Norway. Allen Johanneson, with six or seven TiME-reading years, has made a TIME convert of his ex-schoolteacher wife...
...Last week he found just what he wanted: a 60-room mansion bordered with a half mile of rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid an undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor...
...direct service to the squad in 1947 while the players were taking a terrible physical beating from Virginia, 47 to 0. During a time-out period late in the game, there was no one left to carry out the water bucket, so Benny did. Time came back in sooner than Benny expected, and he just had time to dash off the field on the opposite side from the Harvard bench...
Missouri's Clarence Cannon, House appropriations czar, greeted the request with a hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...