Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Korea, three American missionaries were among 22 captives thrown into a verminous prison so small that some had to stand while others slept on the floor. The Japanese forced water down their throats until they nearly drowned, beat them with rubber hose and belting...
...incendiary bomb with a fine spray. Douse it with a strong stream of water from a hose...
...firefighter can play water on the bomb from a safer distance, and, if the bomb explodes, the stream from the hose will force the molten fragments away from him. Says OCD at last: "Exaggerated conception of the 'terrors' of the bomb has instilled unjustified fear." Previous misunderstanding of incendiaries derives from early experiments by British scientists, who studied the laboratory behavior of pure magnesium, which burns fiercely in water. The British concluded that magnesium incendiary bombs would behave the same way. But the metal in real bombs is only 80% magnesium. The rest is an alloy to make...
...Nations' essential needs. (The civil consumer is out until 1945, at best.) Of that 800,000 tons, 100,000 will be specialty rubbers; 60,000, Standard Oil's famed butyl; 40,000, Du Font's long-established neoprene-strategic for self-sealing gas tanks, oil-resistant hose lines, etc. The rest will be what chemists designate as Buna-S, which has recently given road-test performances up to 130-160% of the best wearing qualities of natural rubber. The emergence of Buna-S almost unquestionably means that natural rubber will be a deader commodity...
...drinking, dancing and "freedom." When Prohibition went, part of the excitement went too, but none of the tourists. Now "the churning froth of summer people [has become] so dense it seems like some monstrous growth climbing up over the little white houses, and one wishes that an equally monstrous hose could be taken to it, making the place clean again." Tourists are one subject about which Author Vorse can be more native than the natives...