Word: bucketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garbage. By dividing the work among four-man teams, and planning out the individual work-steps on a carefully timed schedule, the builders have avoided many of the headaches-and the low productivity-of the trade. Bucket-chain excavators dig foundations in 15 minutes, bulldozer-jeeps carry the earth away, then the foundation-layers move in. After them . come the flooring team, the wall team, the roof team. Then a single tree is planted in front of each house...
...only hisses the villain and boos the witch, but actually rushes onstage at one point and hustles the old crone off. When two of the orange-housed princesses die of thirst in the desert, the stage audience saves the third by rushing to the rescue with a fire-bucket of water brought in from the wings. Biggest laugh: Basso Richard Wentworth's grotesquely funny dance and aria as the huge, bosomy lady cook from whom the prince steals the three oranges by charming her with a piece of ribbon...
...Sporting News (circ. 219,545), the baseball fan's bible, took a mighty cut at the ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...
...would earn dollars - that is, in the U.S. market. That meant that the U.S. would have to accept more imports, said Hoffman. ECA's target was modest - an increase in imports of "several hundred million dollars " within the next two years, amounting to only a drop in the bucket of U.S. production. But it would be enough, Hoffman conceded, to "create problems in a few localities - competition always does...
During his childhood in Flushing, Ohio, Reverdy knew "constant hunger; the old distillery near grandfather Ransom's house, and regular visits there to get 10? or 15? worth of whisky in a tin bucket; the unswerving religious devotion in our small community; no toys and little play; only a candy peach at Christmas; and my mother toiling to support...