Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gracie Fields, back from a road-show tour of the Mediterranean, reported that she had found a place where silk stockings are sold. The place: Catania. She said the Sicilian storekeepers have whipped the hose out of secret places after two years of hiding them from the Germans...
...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...
...Slide. In ships that are battle casualties there may not be time to lower boats, or even to rig cargo nets. But survivors should jump only as a last resort: a man may be knocked out by a high leap, or hit an obstruction. Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than a man can swim; loose...
...play-yard contains what PBH describes as the last metal swing in the city of Boston, as well as a hose shower and galvanized iron wash-tub. Thirty boys and girls play with the crates. Swings, and toys, while the PBH janitor gleefully squirts then with the hose. Supervising the activities are four trained assistants, while the PBH secretaries lean out of the windows to watch the frolic...
Liquidation. Valdasar Lopez put a hose in a tugboat tank, turned on a valve, relaxed on deck while the tug took on water. He awoke in Manhattan's North River after the tug went to the bottom...