Word: dishpan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Come now, biscuits can be baked anywhere there is a fire to cook with. I have made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan on top of a range, on a piece of foil under a piece of corrugated-tin roof, and the product was eaten with relish by all at hand...
Gingerly hauling Suzanne in a tin dishpan, the fugitives-among them five other women and two small boys-took three hours to squeeze through the 2O-inch shaft to freedom...
...Algiers last week, an average of ten people a day were shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. Between murders, the city rocked to the explosion of plastic bombs and to the dishpan clamor of Europeans who poured into the streets shouting "Algérie Franfaise!" and "De Gaulle au poteau!" (De Gaulle to the gallows). Once the bitter war in Algeria was fought between the French and the Moslems...
...stained-glass factory and studied art at night. He finally discovered Provincetown when he was 26, and there found all the subject matter he needed. Like the Dutch masters he admired, he painted ordinary people doing ordinary things. "There is something noble about being able to paint a dishpan that anyone would be glad to hang in a drawing room." he said...
...Dick spent his after school hours and his summers helping out in the store and with the chores in his meager home. "Richard always pulled the shades down when he washed the dishes," his mother recalls, "so that people wouldn't see him with his hands in the dishpan." Up from the dishpans, Dick worked doggedly through Whittier College and then went on to Duke University Law School on a scholarship (he eked out his scholarship by rooming in a ramshackle farmhouse). Back in Whittier, he met and married Pat Ryan, a pretty red-headed schoolteacher who, if anything...