Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, John R. Hose, executive assistant to the president, said that only "15 to 30 students" and "one to four faculty" joined in the vigil...
...cable is only the size of a large garden hose, and its route across the marshlands of New Jersey is not particularly breathtaking. But AT&T workers are taking extraordinary care in handling and splicing this slender conduit as they work their way inch by inch toward the ocean. This is no routine telephone line going in. When it reaches its final destination -- Europe -- in 1988, the $335 million cable will be the first telephone line to carry voices and data across the Atlantic on beams of light...
...horror story of multiple mistakes. NTSB investigators found that on the ground at Reno, the headsets between the ground supervisor and the cockpit did not work, so hand signals were used. After the pilot started two engines, a ground handler discovered that she could not disconnect an air hose used in the starts. The supervisor began frantically signaling the pilots to stop so the hose could be freed. Distracted, the ground crew failed to close a small (8 1/2 in. by 11 in.) access door at the hose connection. The crew neglected to run through the required checklist before takeoff...
...fact, the devotion of the Fenway faithful was last rewarded with a world title in 1918. This year, the followers of the American League East Champion Sox are laying their hearts on the line again for the Carmine Hose, hoping against hope for another title...
...picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with a close-up of insects teeming in the rich grass. He sticks your nose down into the nest, and the theater fills with brittle bug noises...