The Saturday listings magazine which comes with The Times has become a fruitful source of interesting words used in unexpected ways.
This week we have been told of a Rod Stewart concert in Argentina at which fire hoses had to be turned on the crowd to prevent heat protestation.
Well, fire hoses are often turned on crowds making a remonstrance, a complaint, a declaration of objection or dissent, but in this particular instance I suspect they were more useful warding off the extreme physical weakness or exhaustion which can be induced by the heat of rock'n'roll.
