Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...science deliberately set out to give the laboratory rats nervous breakdowns. They buzzed buzzers loud & long and blew sharp, steady blasts from an air hose. Finally, half the rats could no longer stand the strain: they broke down and trembled, twitched their tails, clawed the air, lay on their sides and kicked, ran in circles. But except for these nervous tantrums, the unstable rats seemed to differ in only one respect from the imperturbable rats: they had an abnormally high sugar and protein content in their blood...
...amounts to a cultural revolution . . . the reinvigoration of the native tradition. . . . Men & women of marked talent have undertaken to communicate what they have perceived in the life immediately at hand-three adolescent girls on their way home from school, a man burning leaves while his son coils the garden hose for winter, a farm wife mixing the icing for a cake...
...hose of the Catholic clergy who actively collaborated with the Nazis and urged their flocks to do likewise. The tightest-clenched fists were those of pro-Ally Catholics themselves. Among the prelates suspected...
...Stole just about everything portable, including fire-hose nozzles. ¶Hacked off metal and plastic name plates identifying equipment. ¶Tried to pry up the metal plaque on the veranda deck marking the spot where the Japs' surrender was signed. ¶Scribbled "compositions" and scratched their initials on newly painted bulkheads. ¶Scarred the hard enamel of the 16-in. guns so badly that the muzzles had to be raised out of reach. ¶Set off the general alarm, which sent the cursing crew dashing to battle stations...
...Scholz and the Teen-Ager's mother: "We have been horrified by the beating of helpless persons by the cruel guards in the prison camps of Germany and Japan. Is it not time for us to be deeply shocked by ordinary American parents who use rubber hose or strap on their defenseless children...