Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projected enrollment of 1,539 (797 black), a jeering, mostly teen-aged crowd of whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried the 56 black students who showed up for opening day. As school was dismissed that afternoon, the whites brandished lengths of rubber hose and clubs and again threw bottles at the buses. Nine black students and a bus monitor were slightly injured by shattering glass. At the 79 other schools that were desegregated, there was no violence...
Powell knocked in Baltimore's fifth run in the person of Grich in the fifth, before the Hose came back in the bottom of the inning. Tommy Harper and Juan Beniquez hit back-to-back singles with one out, advanced on Carl Yastrzemski's gound-out, and Evans's scratch hit scored Harper...
...blood cells. By a malign quirk of nature, CO has an affinity for hemoglobin more than 200 times as great as that of oxygen. Thus too much carbon monoxide starves the body of oxygen, causing illness and sometimes death-as in the case of the suicide who runs a hose from the engine exhaust to the inside of his car. But how many Americans are inhaling an excessive amount...
Prison guards and Texas Rangers also had a plan. They suddenly blasted the entire group with water from high pressure hoses, effectively separating the outer hostages from the rest. But a hose ruptured, giving the convicts a chance to open fire with their pistols. The officers returned the fire and a one-sided gun battle broke...
Jane Greenwood's costumes suit the time and place nicely. Maggie even puts on dress stockings with seams, which are all but impossible to find in these days of seamless hose. The lines require, however, that Brick wear a pair of white silk pajamas; what he wears sure isn't silk...