Word: hosing
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...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...
...objects that the six essays established, although "well written and interesting" were chosen with a "very narrow and conservative outlook on what constitutes quality." Here his objection is a little elusive. It is difficult to see how editorial standard that call explicitly for depth can be considered narrow; we hose the six papers that seemed to us most interdisciplinary, and most relevant to the broadest questions of life. And it is difficult to see how papers about what Harry calls "Great Men...and their Great Ideas" are any more conservative than paper about the "common man." But it is easy...
...black and brandishing a brick, and the police had fired in self-defense only after they had been "surrounded and pelted with stones, sticks and other missiles, including petrol bombs." Eyewitnesses, however, maintained that the police had begun shooting without provocation and had summoned a fire engine to hose away the blood. President Botha appointed a judicial commission to investigate the shootings...
...majesty. All the royalty of Europe would be there, having loaned their jewelry to the tenderfoot from the New World. And think, we could reverse Britain's economic depression by renting all the Crown Jewels at once. No more navy-blue suits in the White House: strictly doublet and hose and beware the jester. Maybe Eddie Murphy could play that part...