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Word: hoses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronauts also shot some scenes from the spacecraft windows, catching glimpses of clouds and coastlines racing by. They panned Apollo's interior as they described equipment; they demonstrated how loose drops of water are collected with a vacuum hose and how water is added to their dehydrated food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Acrobats in Orbit | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...restrictions vary widely. The only rule at San Francisco's fashionable Shreve's jewelry store is a prohibition against sleeveless dresses on saleswomen. A Houston chemical company looks askance at fishnet hose and false eyelashes. At California Federal Savings & Loan, says one official dryly, "We don't care if a man wears a beard, just so long as he doesn't wear it into the office." Geico Insurance Co.'s Washington office frowns on culotte dresses, but refrains from formally banning them because they are often difficult to detect. Many companies, in fact, shy away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FASHION SHOW IN THE OFFICE | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...March 1945, a Japanese bomber smashed two bombs into the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin. "O'Callahan was everywhere," wrote the navigator of Lieut. Commander Joseph O'Callahan, the ship's Roman Catholic chaplain. Besides ministering to the wounded, O'Callahan manned a fire hose, going into an oven-hot turret to cool off the ammo to throw it overboard. For this Father O'Callahan, who died in 1964, became the only chaplain in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 26, 1968 | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each time around Palmeira. Catholic-educated Palmeira, the son of a wealthy state senator who supports Costa, is disdainful of Russian Communism, also opposes "the weight of American capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Surpassing All Limits Of Unpopularity | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Meanwhile the theatre's assistant manager, having filled the 2,800 seats to capacity, began rolling the film early. He later told police, "They were fighting in the aisles every time someone left his seat. [About 1, small fires broke out under the seats.] Patrons carried a fire hose down the center aisle, but the hose broke loose from a standpipe fitting. The water spurted and under pressure knocked six people from their seats." The Globe hysterically reported that 20 persons were arrested, 30 injured. Mayor Collins was promised that there would be no more pre-dawn previews...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Has Success Spoiled Ben Sack? | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

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