Word: hosing
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When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...Hose Down. The Mulligans are not very gregarious. "I don't go on the road much any more," says Gerry. "The marriage is working. Of course, you have to like cats." The cats pretty well preclude inviting people in, though Sandy's recently divorced mother presides over most of the menagerie at the Weston retreat. Sandy doesn't like gadding about, anyway. Still a keen reader, she rips through nearly a book a day, is currently working on English and Russian history...
...always looked better. But I've come to the point in my life where I realize that looking good takes time, and I don't have that time. I appreciate people who do-you know? I don't look down on it. Now, I never wear hose. And the reason I do not wear hose is, No. 1, I have to shop for them and, No. 2, I have to wear them and they get runs in them and, No. 3, I have to wash them and take care of them. And then you have to have...
...grave drawbacks to being the best of a rare breed. His tongue-twisting technique and feathery phrasing have dazzled concert audiences for more than a quarter-century; but purists still dismiss his performances of classical music as gimmickry, akin to playing horn concertos on a length of garden hose. Now and then, such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Darius Milhaud have written pieces for him, but the repertory for harmonica remains woefully thin; most of Adler's concert selections must be adapted from music for other instruments...
...Curtain. Hovercraft were born in the fertile mind of British Aeronautical Engineer Christopher Cockerell in 1954. Testing his notion in true pioneer-inventor fashion, he attached a hose to the exhaust of an ordinary vacuum cleaner, stuck it through a hole in the top of an open-bottomed tin can, and watched fascinated as the can floated off the floor; the increased air pressure inside the can had pushed against the floor through the open end, lifting the can. Recognizing that the unhindered escape of air from the bottom of the can-and from the bottom of early experimental craft...