Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston heat, crowds of young hoodlums began to gather at the Cambridge end of the Western Avenue bridge across the Charles. Most were from "Kerry Corner," Cambridge's Hell's Kitchen, but others came from remote points in the Boston metropolitan area. They carried lengths of rubber hose and two-by-fours, fish knives, baseball bats, bayonets. Calling themselves "delegates" and lining up in well-disciplined ranks, they began to march, some 200 strong, up Western Avenue toward "the coast," Cambridge's Negro district. A group of Negro boys were waiting...
...bride-tall, graceful Princess Alexandra of Greece-arrived first: a flash of silken hose under a mink coat. Twenty minutes later came the bridegroom-slim, impulsive King Peter of Yugoslavia, in the light blue uniform of his air force. Other limousines brought the witnesses: Britain's George VI, the bridegroom's godfather, and Greece's George II, the bride's uncle. Among the guests: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Norway's King Haakon, Holland's Queen Wilhelmina...
...washboard, casserole cover, alarm clock, etc. But the title was tucked away by redheaded James Howard Nash, alias Panhandle Pete (see cut), ex-North Carolina hillbilly of Grand Island, Neb., Station KMMJ, who detonated his Wabash Cannon Ball on an automobile exhaust whistle, cowbell, six feet of garden hose and 14 other gadgets. Said his opponent: "I know when I'm licked...
...tire material is an elastic vinyl plastic called Plioflex, which Good year had already found good for many other uses, including a garden hose which is much lighter than rubber-and-fabric, shoe uppers that need no polishing and can be cleaned with a damp cloth, heels, raincoats, draperies, etc. The key to its tire-making properties is a new curing agent that makes it possible to vulcanize Plioflex...
Definitions: Semaphore--a graduated Freshman; cipher--to get gasoline with a rubber hose...