Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adjacent dormitory for medical residents, the bodies of ten doctors were pulled from the debris. As rescue workers scrambled over the wreckage, carrying picks and ropes, one suddenly shouted, "Silence!" He had heard sounds of life. "We are here," said a muffled voice. The workers quickly lowered an oxygen hose into a tiny crevice to keep the survivors alive. On Avenida Juarez, a state technical school, with an enrollment of 300 teenage students, was leveled. Outside, a red-eyed teacher sat in the middle of the closed-off street typing a list of the missing...
...effective weapon. One law- enforcement official calls the short-barreled machine pistol "a piece of junk" that is difficult to control. Miami Police Officer Robert P. Davis, who has tested MACs, disagrees: "They are devastating in automatic form. They are like spraying water from a hose." The MAC-10 greatly outnumbers another gun favored by criminals, the compact Israeli-made UZI. That well-built weapon is more accurate, but it is more expensive at around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unintentionally gave the MAC a boost...
...PARKING EN ESTE DRIVEWAY reads a sign in Miami, and motorists know exactly what it means. In Los Angeles, shopkeepers do not miss a beat if a customer asks, "Donde esta la panty hose?" When a newly arrived Manhattanite asks his neighbor, "Tienes un VCR?" the reply is immediate: "Over there, under...
...Galanos body has a 32-in. hipline; the adult female body usually does not. Some of the eleven attenuated wisps running around backstage match the ideal. Some require aid such as wrapping their hips in Ace bandages, using a girdle handmade out of half a girdle, layering on support hose--or all three. Galanos cuts his show samples to fit Pat Jones, his longtime associate. In Houston, a model banished from the lineup expressed a desire to force-feed Twinkies to Jones...
...track facility, which was inside the Stadium, was too small and run down to accommodate large meets. So the Crimson lost the opportunity to hose the Heptagonals or any other large, important meets...