Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objects that the six essays established, although "well written and interesting" were chosen with a "very narrow and conservative outlook on what constitutes quality." Here his objection is a little elusive. It is difficult to see how editorial standard that call explicitly for depth can be considered narrow; we hose the six papers that seemed to us most interdisciplinary, and most relevant to the broadest questions of life. And it is difficult to see how papers about what Harry calls "Great Men...and their Great Ideas" are any more conservative than paper about the "common man." But it is easy...
...black and brandishing a brick, and the police had fired in self-defense only after they had been "surrounded and pelted with stones, sticks and other missiles, including petrol bombs." Eyewitnesses, however, maintained that the police had begun shooting without provocation and had summoned a fire engine to hose away the blood. President Botha appointed a judicial commission to investigate the shootings...
...majesty. All the royalty of Europe would be there, having loaned their jewelry to the tenderfoot from the New World. And think, we could reverse Britain's economic depression by renting all the Crown Jewels at once. No more navy-blue suits in the White House: strictly doublet and hose and beware the jester. Maybe Eddie Murphy could play that part...
...October issue of Vanity Fair. She was "thrilled to meet these wonderful athletes," and describes Bruce Hayes, 21, Mike Heath, 20, David Larson, 25, and Jeff Float, 24, as "shy and awfully nice." Yes, but not that shy. The photo session was going swimmingly when a water hose was turned on in the studio, and -surprise!-"the boys had dropped their swim trunks." Welch, like any other good sport, just grinned while they bared it. "They were very discreet, but it was still pretty funny for me when I realized what was happening," says Welch. "I was afraid to look...
...five-alarmer, one of the most spectacular in San Francisco since World War II. Two giant wooden piers on the city's downtown waterfront are burning out of control, hurling giant orange flames against a nighttime Pacific sky. As scores of fire fighters scramble to uncoil hose lines and position aerial platforms, a slight figure tightly wrapped in a flame-resistant fire fighter's coat steps carefully through the debris in open-toed shoes. Above the roar of high-pressure pumps, she quizzes battalion commanders and cranes her neck to assess the fire fighters' progress. Finally satisfied...