Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave her a Christmas present. A pair Hanes support hose. The kind with season She was pleased, but she still didn't like...
...shutdown even sparked some incidents of violence. Bill Sutton, owner of a South Miami filling station, had to call police after a motorist to whom he refused to sell gas on Saturday night swung a hose at him, shouting: "I am going to get some gas even if I have to kill somebody." In Hanford, Calif., a station owner who had closed at the President's call found that a competitor across the street was open on Sunday and doing a hopping business. So the patriot hauled out a pistol and shot up six of his rival...
...Jewish boy from Brooklyn doing posing as a hard-eyed Arab on the cover of Newsweek? "We couldn't find any Arabs," explained Manhattan Talent Agent Steve Kaye. His firm had been commissioned to find a model for a photo that would show an Arab holding a gasoline hose. The theme: "Arab Oil Squeeze." Kaye volunteered his own bearded, dark visage and even provided a headdress−one that he had bought, of course, in Israel, where his brother lives on a kibbutz...
...practical test. Selecting two of the ship's tanks, which were each filled with 100 tons of sea water, they poured 55 lbs. of nitrogen-containing urea and 2.2 lbs. of potassium phosphates into each. Shipboard compressors were used to bubble air into the tanks through a perforated hose, thus turning them into ideal "bacterial fermenters," says Rosenberg. Then a flaskful of RAG1 bacteria was poured into one tank. Six and a half days later, the tanker discharged its ballast. The unbugged tank emitted an ugly black slick. But there was hardly any slick from the other tank...
...precisely 8:30, an attendant dropped the barrier, and the race was on. The buyers sprinted through the doorways for the elevators; some of the more vigorous bounded up stairways in an attempt to get ahead of the crowd. It was not a rush for cut-rate panty hose at a discount house; rather, it was the scene at this spring's version of the semiannual Canton Trade Fair, where Chinese traders showed off their wares to the largest collection of foreign businessmen ever. And it was a bust: the eager foreigners found far more high prices than bargains...