Raccoons lifted the lids off the garbage pails left at the curb for the morning pickup.

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We were instructed to make the dogs wait until their pails were filled, then command them to eat.

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The skies over American cities were heavy with smoke, and six days a week tens of millions of begrimed, overalled workers poured through factory gates, lunch pails in hand.

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Saturday mornings, the sidewalks are clogged with students marching to class clutching rolled-up mats, the way you used to see factory men trudging to work with their lunch pails.

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So in 1979 Jim and a younger brother, Philip, cofounded Arcon, conducting their experiments in Jim's kitchen, where they filled jars, glasses and pails with liquid latex, then cured the rubber in his oven.

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On Saturdays the haulers, their wives and their children gathered at the recycling center to clean out the plastic pails they gave to customers for collecting the newspapers, magazines, bottles and other recycling materials.

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What was thrown into the neighborhood garbage pails after Thanksgiving had fed me nicely for several days, but I was chilled as I foraged, and within a week the wind was whistling through the siding of my attic hideout.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

For example, he insisted that he hadn't been back to his tae kwon do dojo since April 15, before changing his story to say that he'd returned briefly one week later for a mop bucket, two pails and a fire extinguisher.

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