Word: burners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sticky summer, remembering the shady trees of Pleasantville, they decided to move there. They found a $25-a-month "studio"-a single room above Manhattan Public Relations Man. Pendleton Dudley's garage-and used it as a bedroom, sitting room and office. The Wallaces cooked on a two-burner gas stove in the corner, washed in a stall shower in the garage below...
...then poured some water into one of the pans, threw in some carrots which he had just diced (he almost cut off his finger with a wild sweep of the carving knife), and lit the burner on the stove. He was working fast, and Liz followed him about the kitchen admiringly...
...actually was just at the beginning of something new. In March 1950, at the insistence of Arthur Vandenberg, Dulles was restored to a position in the State Department. Dean Acheson assigned him to the job of formulating the treaty for Japan, a chore which had been on the back burner for almost three years. The Pentagon was not sure that it ever wanted to see Japan turned loose-at least...
This comparatively happy ending seems more likable than likely. But then, Novelist Sansom's aromatic dish of climate and characters has not been cooked on the fierce front burner of profound truths anyway...
Incense & Salamanders. Red China, which had been invited but did not respond until after the closing date for entries, sent nine "observers," who presented the federation with an engraved enamel incense burner and a red silk banner inscribed: "We wish the first Asian games success and the physical education workers of Asia to unite and strive for peace in Asia and all the world." They gave each team a blue flower vase, a set of Communist magazines called People's Pictorial, pictures of Mao Tse-tung, and on the closing night they gave a huge party. The Japanese...