Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whlie about 200 students watched, Cambridge firemen sent a ladder to the roof of C-entry, turned a spotlight on the building and ran a hose through the front doorway before discovering what had happened...
...volunteer firemen arrived from Riegelsville, two miles away, the author's garage and studio had burned to its foundations. The charred wreck of a new Nash sedan sat amid the embers. The back of the old farmhouse, 100 feet away, was flaming too. The firemen drove on, ran hose to a nearby pond and put the fire...
...trimotored Fokker monoplane bearing the name Question Mark took off and began swinging in lazy circles over Southern California. Every few hours, night & day, a second plane rose up, jockeyed a hose into position on the droning Fokker, poured gas into its thirsty tanks. After six days, the Fokker glided back to earth. Its bone-tired pilots, among them a stocky, ruddy-skinned Army lieutenant named Elwood Richard Quesada, * had just hung up a world's endurance record...
...Senate and House conferees will meet this week to iron out the differences in their bills. The Senate's bill gives the President even less power than the House's. The best they will hand Harry Truman in the end will be something of a leaky hose...
...last fling at some new records. On the twelfth lap around the twelve-mile course, hitting 200 m.p.h., the Meteor skidded and mowed down a line of wooden markers before Jenkins could straighten out. As the car began to heat up and smoke, because of a punctured radiator hose line, Jenkins braked to a stop and jumped to safety. He had chalked up 24 new records, including 196.69 m.p.h. for 25 miles. Looking sadly at his smoking racer, Ab announced that he was through with fast driving. "At 68, I've outworn...