Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stars or planets. When the first parachute opened, he got an 11-G shock, but did not mind it much. Through the periscope he watched the second parachute open; then, without haste, he made ready for landing. He disconnected his oxygen hose, loosened belts that held his body to the contour couch. The landing in the Atlantic was soft. For a few mo ments the capsule lay on its side with one porthole under water. Slowly it righted itself, and Commander Shepard opened the door to greet the rescue helicopter...
...sluiced northward into the Rotterdam Waterway. The waterway provides ocean-going vessels with access to The Netherlands' greatest port, but, in the process, also allows salt water to pass far inland, damaging surrounding farmlands. In effect, the five smaller dams of the Delta Plan will be used to hose the salinity out of the waterway with sweet water sluiced up from the southwest...
...extending out into the exosphere, the near empty area of space more than 400 miles above the earth. If a radar signal were beamed into one end of such a "pipe," Gallet and Booker reasoned, the gently bending channel of electrons would carry it like water through a hose to the earth's opposing hemisphere and then bounce it back...
...last week, Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries had gone to all sorts of pains to set the right mood. Through loudspeakers came the false notes struck by a small child practicing the piano. In one nook were three white hens, in another a gypsy fortuneteller. A green hose snaked through the various rooms, a bicycle hung upside down from the ceiling, an old-fashioned time clock stood guard at the door. With such zany flourishes, surrealism came back to Manhattan in force for the first time in 18 years...
...said coldly, "through arming the people and smashing the puppet dictatorial regimes." In Washington a high U.S. official dealing with Latin America took a look at the endless crises besetting the hemisphere's governments and likened the situation to a "mountain of sugar melting under a fire hose...