Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What they saw was far from spectacular. One small hose was introduced upon the scene, and with it and many axes, the smoke-eaters succeeded in removing the remains of a previously smouldering cigarette. Damages were slight...
...origins. He affected a coarse cotton tunic, but underneath he wore silk-lined furs. To his guests he served only cabbage and dumplings, but when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang...
...exchanged a futile barrage of charges and countercharges. Republicans accused the President of attempting to set up full wartime powers to use at his own discretion. The G.O.P., snapped West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley Kilgore, was "rushing to a three-alarm fire with a garden hose...
After this dragonfly mating, the hose is flushed out with nitrogen and hauled back to the tanker. The contact lines part at a special "weak link" and are hauled...
...their tires, paid the station's cut-rate charges to girls on roller skates. The customers liked the new prices, but some found the system confusing. One was prevented just in time from putting oil into his battery, another misjudged the automatic cut-off on the gasoline hose, doused one of the cruising cashiers...