Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln with deficiencies in arithmetic and spelling, but with an urge to learn more about people. He decided Princeton, Yale and Harvard were undemocratic, bypassed them to attend smaller Dartmouth. At Hanover he directed a stirring attack on the fraternity system but eventually joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made Phi Beta Kappa...
...Hose Sorry Now? In Wells Ford, New Zealand, city officials discovered that a new, $160,000 fire station .had complete modern plumbing, no water supply...
...bargain basement. Filene's professional buyers picked up Paris dresses at a song in 1940 just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted to a wartime troopship. Filene's customers got these bargains-plus hip-length hose from the Folies-Bergère and smoke-damaged goods from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus-at cut-rate prices that are automatically trimmed 25% after twelve selling days, 50% after 18, 75% after 24. If unsold after a month, the goods are given to charity...
...Hose on Hell. The Witnesses' creed is based on what they regard as utter obedience to the Bible ("God's complete word of truth"). They accept the Biblical prophecy that Satan will be defeated in the cataclysm of Armageddon, followed by eternal life for the righteous. Other Christians share that belief, but sharply disagree with the Witnesses' assertion that, as the only true followers of the Bible, Witnesses alone will be saved...
...Taze Russell, a small, intense-looking Pittsburgh merchant who joined the Congregational Church but disliked thinking of hell as fiery and eternal. "Would you hold a puppy dog's tail in the fire three minutes?" he asked. Neither would a just God, was his argument. To "turn the hose on hell," Russell went back to the Bible and found the words: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake" (Daniel...