Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their bunks. As the choking fumes billowed into their compartments, they tried to escape, only to be forced back by the deadly smoke and heat in the passageways. Lieut. Commander Marvin Reynolds opened his porthole and managed to alert some hands on the top deck; they handed down a hose and an oxygen mask. Then Reynolds spent three hours spraying water around his oven-hot compartment. Commander Richard M. Bellinger, a 205-lb. jet pilot who was awarded the Silver Star last month, ripped out an air conditioner, wriggled naked through the tiny opening to a burning catwalk and escape...
...fire never had a chance to spread to adjoining rooms. By ten, the firemen were coiling the hose and beginning to leave, and people started to filter back into the entry. Damage in G-41 was con fined to the furniture, smoke blackening water stains, and a small charred strip up one side of a closet door...
Five fire trucks arrived at 9:25. The smoke had driven out 15 or 20 students from F and G entries and had attracted a crowd of almost 100. Firemen with gas masks pulled a hose up the stairwell inside while others propped a ladder outside against the window...
...taking a shower in black goo. Elsewhere there was a single bosom blown up to pop proportions, enlarged male genitals looming from plastic strips, and an assemblage, Green Table and Chairs, which showed two chairs, each with a single aperture, connected under the table by a garden hose...
...white marchers. "You're gonna need 'em." A pickup truck careened down the column as a white man in the passenger's seat flailed at the marchers with a club. When the demonstrators knelt to pray, they were sprayed by a white tough with a hose...