Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pale Hose...
...Guardsmen scrambled aboard two old-fashioned civil defense fire trucks and sped toward a blaze reported out of control in the student quarters of King's College Hospital Medical School. When the troops arrived 15 minutes later, after taking one wrong turn, their low-pressure pumps failed to hose water as high as the third floor; flames were already licking at the roof. Worse, ladders extended only to the second floor. Finally deciding to fight the blaze from above, the soldiers climbed to the roof and managed to extinguish the flames after a 90-minute battle. Said an experienced...
...Governor." Dai-ton's campaign literature asserts that, as Governor, "Howling Henry" would howl to a tune composed by George Meany. Dalton also has warned that cops and firemen would be "too busy collective bargaining" to chase criminals and put out fires. At one rally, Dalton waved a garden hose at the crowd to dramatize the supposed dangers of a firemen's strike...
...Again, Mobil seems to be the chief villain. This summer it launched a new program whereby prominent cartoonists were hired to draw cartoons subtly embued with the Mobil message. An example is one by Roy Doty of a man standing in his back yard, axing to bits a rubber hose which was in the process of supplying water for his inflatable swimming pool. Another man turns to a puzzled neighbor and says, "He's explaining how breaking up the oil companies would work." Another cartoon by Robert Weper has a store clerk explaining a new game to a customer...
...project that will not inconvenience students was completed last week, as Mather Tower's carpets were replaced in suites on the fifth through the nineteenth floors. The carpeting was damaged when a fire hose "accidentally" gushed water in the tower during the first week of July, causing $10,000 worth of damage...