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Word: hosed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swell big marble layout in the moonlight with a built-in pool. Birds was singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front was the best-looking broad of them all doing bumps and boy, was she built! . . . Yes, sir, that was Persia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: People Going Crazy | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...composition is still secret, but it is known to be an organic chemical with a surface tension only half that of water. Its lower tension makes it adhere better to metal and rubber surfaces, thus displacing the water. In a spectacular test an automobile motor was sprayed by hose until the motor died. When PiB was brushed on, it insinuated itself between the water and the metal, thus in effect "dried" the electrical system and allowed the motor to be started. In other tests electric motors have been operated under water after being coated with PiB. A coating lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Water Chaser | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kingsized Smoke Backfires As Lowell Gets Last Puff | 3/20/1945 | See Source »

...gossamer Christmas vision tantalized Canadian women. Real full-fashioned silk stockings, said Ottawa newspapers, might be on the store shelves before Christmas. A shipment of silk hose was coming from Brazil. But the stockings would be expensive, could not be sold unless Canada's tough Price Controller Donald Gordon gave permission to lift the price ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: WAR-TIME LIVING: Christmas Stockings | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Hardy garden hose which can be left outdoors winter and summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silicone Season | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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