Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
Shot-in-the-Root. Des Moines' Ross Daniels Root Feeder Co. has needled its business with a hypodermic needle for plants. Attached to a garden hose, the needle is inserted into the ground near the plant roots. The water dissolves powdered fertilizers in the neck of the needle and feeds them directly to the roots. The price...
Instead of vanes to deflect the jet, the Neptune will have the whole "thrust unit" (combustion chamber and discharge tube) mounted so that it can be moved slightly. Gyroscopic stabilizing instruments in the nose will play the jet from side to side like water from a hose, overcoming the rocket's tendency to wobble on the takeoff...
...such was the tone of the proceedings in general. The "Grizzle" where student spectators of a pre-war era frequently held the main stairway with a fire hose against the minions of the law, now caters to elderly ladies crocheting in the lobby. Elsewhere along the river conditions were not up to par either, Small crafts of all kinds were in abundance, but the mammoth yachts of old, from the great three-masted schooners to the nearocean liners of the more opulent old grads, were still in the moth balls in which they have lanquished since...
...employees, distinct from London's police bobbies). Upping Turner, they insisted, was rank favoritism: each should have been given the chance to apply for the promotion. Out also went many of Billingsgate's cleaners. Conscientious Constable Turner, they angrily charged, had stooped unfairly to help the superintendent hose down a messy corner of the fish market...