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Word: hosed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Commission on Working Women found her the TV character to whom real-life blue-and pink-collar working women most relate. Does Lavin relate back? "I'm on my feet too all day, every day," she says of her shooting schedule. "We're really into Supp-hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Student Assembly last night refused to allow a South Hose delegate to hold more than one seat on the assembly...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Assembly Refuses to Permit Delegate to Hold Two Seats | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...yellow, blue to blue. They lead to detonator caps and charges buried deep in the rock by Aberle's partner, Jim Burns. As Aberle makes connections, Burns is busy installing more streamers. Most carefully, he places a single detonator cap on the end of a long air hose, shoves the hose into one of 800 holes, each one 9 ft. deep, that he has drilled in the rock above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: Gold Diggers of '79 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

With a wh-o-o-o-sh!the air hose sucks up and implants the charge, millions of ammonium nitrate pebbles soaked with fuel oil from a black cauldron near by. "We call 'em 'prills,' " Burns says, emptying another sack of the explosive powder into the cauldron. The prills look like a pile of granulated soap particles and feel rather like raw tapioca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: Gold Diggers of '79 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/6/1979 | See Source »

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