Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Druze fighters in Aytat are constantly finding new fields of fire. "As soon as you think you know where it is safe to walk, they find another way to shoot at you," complains Munira Nassar, a housewife. One of her neighbors was wounded while hanging out laundry from a kitchen window...
Such uncertainty leads to eruptions of inappropriate behavior. In Feathers, a man named Jack and his wife Fran are invited to dinner at the home of one of Jack's coworkers. They arrive and find a peacock strutting about the front yard, a wife happily domesticated in the kitchen and their host offering them drinks in a room where a TV set is carrying a stock-car race. All of this is too much for Fran, who did not want to come in the first place. She eyes the screen: "Maybe one of those damn cars will explode right...
Barbara, 30, a middle-class housewife from South Hadley, Mass., was first beaten by her husband when she was pregnant. Last summer Barbara's husband hurled a dinner plate across the kitchen at her. His aim was off. The plate shattered against the wall and a piece of it struck their four-year-old daughter in the face, blinding the child...
...chosen by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters to receive one of the Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings, an annual tax-free award of $35,000 for a minimum of five years. "When I first read the letter announcing it," she recalls, "I sat at the kitchen table bawling away and saying, 'I can't accept this.' My husband said: 'Are you mad?' It went on that way for more than a month. I wallowed in guilt. I thought: How did this happen to me? What about everybody else with the same...
...child's development during its first year is far slower than that of a monkey or even an elephant, it is nonetheless so dramatic-from lying flat on its back to the first creeping across the floor to the first faltering steps around the corner of the kitchen table-that scientists persist in trying to pinpoint when and how it learns each new accomplishment...