Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marriage to U.S. Marine; 1963, art course for military wives while stationed in France; 1963-74, moving, moving, moving, mother of four children, trying to paint and cook and sew and clean house until one day, as she was working in oils, the buzzer went off on the dryer and a light bulb went on in her head. Lint...
...rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with...
Photographers Leo Mason and Daniel Forster have become accomplished sailors during their stay in Fremantle. Mason, who compares coverage of the contest to "four months of living inside a washing machine and spin dryer," has hung out his cameras to dry after each day's work. Forster has 15 years of experience as a marine photographer, which helped him retain his composure when he and Mason were taking photos of Conner's Stars & Stripes last week and their motorboat began to sink. They quickly radioed for help...
...four-year period starting in 1987. But consumers and the lending industry have already hit upon an alternative: the home-equity loan, which is secured by a house or condominium. Interest on such loans will remain deductible, within some limits. "You go out and buy a new washer and dryer and still get to deduct the interest because in effect you're paying for it with a home-mortgage loan," says Kinzie, the Chicago banker...
...Doubleday editor called about the sale of paperback rights. "I thought he was going to tell me I was only getting $5,000 or something," King fondly remembers. "He said $400,000. The only thing I could think to do was go out and buy my wife a hair dryer. I stumbled across the street to get it and thought I would probably get greased by some...