Word: hosing
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...confessions without using a rubber hose (a secret...
...wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below neat knickers of Post Office grey...
...temporary prison at the citadel of St. Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam* and French Guiana, where after another brief internment, most convicts are assigned...
...Central Park Zoo, who last week gave birth for the first time. Despite zookeepers' precautions, Rosie butted her newly-born unmercifully, refused it food. The baby hippo, a 52-lb. male, was moved to a separate cage, fed goat's milk and cream through a hose. But sad-eyed and dejected by his solitude, he grew weaker, in five days' time died of internal injuries...
...birds was the Pelicanus Americanus (American White Pelican), an ugly creature with a long double chin; the other was the Phoenicopterus Ruber (American Flamingo), a crimson-colored monstrosity with a long hose-like neck...