Word: aprons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chadian capital. A few minutes later four Jaguar fighter-bombers repeated the maneuver. By the end of the day the little airport, which normally handles only a dozen civilian airliners a week, had begun to look like a military airbase. Parked next to the jets on the runway apron were half a dozen Transall military freighters and a C-135F aerial refueling plane, together with five fighter aircraft from Zaire. "Operation Manta," as the government of President Francis Mitterrand had code-named France's challenge to Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's ambitions in Chad, was beginning to acquire...
...board with resident Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoi and Valentin Lebedev. Savitskaya suffered no discomfort at all. She did, however, have to endure some heavy-handed Soviet male humor. Boarding the space station, Lebedev smilingly invited her to do the cooking and cleaning. Said he: "We've got an apron ready for you, Sveta...
Down the street, Kennedy walked into a fish store and, as Vellucci tells it, the owner of the store began to wipe his hands on his apron in order to greet the Congressman and presidential aspirant...
MOST SO-CALLED feminist fiction borders on highbrow soap opera. Housewife discovers her unfulfilled potential in a local encounter group, unbinds her apron and takes leave of her husband, who speaks only to his briefcase and was sleeping with his secretary anyway. The author indicts all men, and women become the dark horse champions, carrying the weight of civilization in--where else--their wombs. One of the most popular recent examples of this plot is Marilyn French's The Women's Room...
...fish filleted to about 2½ lbs. Breasts of chicken for supremes de volatile aux poivrons are at hand on the big, 6-ft. by 12-ft. marble worktable, along with peppers, tomatoes, fresh corn. Franey, who is wearing a tennis shirt and khakis, puts on a blue denim apron that matches Claiborne's. His dogs, a Labrador and a spaniel, array themselves on the red tile floor. He banishes to outer darkness a bottle of strong, dark Italian olive oil, with which Claiborne has been whisking up mayonnaise, and replaces it with a can of clear, rational French...