Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blaming its trouble on rural electrification and on the increased use of cigarette lighters and paper book matches, the Diamond Match Co. announced it would shut down its "kitchen match" plant in Oswego, N.Y. for ten weeks...
...thing, Kent was dead-he had lost his job, and fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie Condon, wife of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the federal Bureau of Standards...
Grillparzer on schedule. During dinner there, a fire broke out in the kitchen and spread through the imitation Wienerwald. In trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...
Today the theater still has a large kitchen and a farm, but 90% of the admissions come in silver and greenbacks. Says Porterfield: "If another depression comes along, we'll just go back to taking beans and 'taters for admissions...
Nevertheless, "The Track Of The Cat" is a deeply engrossing bock. What Clark misses by his indefinite allegory and also by his sometimes tedious portrayal of petty details (endless scenes of housework in the ranch kitchen for instance) he makes up for in his absolutely unsurpassed descriptions of the mountains, the storm, the break-up of a strong man under stress, and the general atmosphere of coldness, loneliness and terror...