Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasm wore off in the inhospitable climate, makeshift poverty and poor housing of Kazakhstan. "We have tea, as much sugar as we want, but no place to buy a teapot," a pioneer told an Izvestia reporter. "Kerosene lamps are also a problem . . . and then, washing basins . . . pots to cook...
...hardly been inside a hospital before," recalls Cheshire. "I had to learn how to wash him, how to make his bed, as well as cook and do the housework and the garden. But somehow it worked. Arthur [the patient] thought he was alone in the world and nobody wanted him. Then he found that I wanted him. And it made all the difference...
...used to it, and in 1952 a TV producer decided to put him on the air. Misunderstanding the offer, Liberace thought he was being hired for a cooking program (he is a devoted amateur cook and often used to whip up a few cakes for his friends). But his piano and patter act was an instant TV hit. His first sponsor : the Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Explains an admirer: "Banks are always nice to old ladies. So is Liberace...
...years' time, the gadget-laden U.S. householder will be able to do almost everything but change the baby with the flick of a switch. So predicted General Electric's Vice President W. V. O'Brien last week. Electronic devices will thaw frozen foods, cook them in a matter of minutes or seconds; electric incinerators will burn up the waste. Heat pumps (for both heating and cooling homes) will mushroom from the few thousand now in use to 500,000. There will be television screens that hang like pictures on the wall, connected to the set only...
...Delays. In Los Angeles, retired Blacksmith Abraham Jones won an annulment of his marriage when he complained that his wife Amelia "had no love for me," once took three days to cook a chicken...