Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when Fritz was ten, his father wanted the family to see the nation's capital. He nailed wooden boards around the sides...
Sitting relaxed on a sofa in his white-walled living room in Washington, Mondale talked about the pressures of being out front. He looked youthful in a green turtleneck shirt, faded jeans and blue running shoes. His wife Joan was in the kitchen making lunch. A couple of cats, Kitty and Squirt, crawled on and off his lap. He was asked about the recurring theme that he lacked the 33 strength of leadership to stand up to pressure groups...
...back more than 3,000 years to the Egyptians, who used sea sponges soaked in citrus juices, which are slightly spermicidal, as contraceptives. When American Hospital showed little interest in Vorhauer's idea, he resigned and set up a tiny office in Newport Beach, Calif. Says he: "My kitchen was my first...
...women that visitors like John Evelyn wrote of, "generally well-featured, but excessively libidinous." Even still lifes by artists like Paolo Porpora and Giovanni Battista Recco have the swollen intensity of painting infatuated with the surface of the world. However, Recco's picture of objects on a kitchen table, grouped around the visual pivot of a Delft dish, is so exquisitely designed and so full of severe visual rhymes and harmonies as to rival the best bodegon paintings of Zurbaran...
...personal data basing, however, makes good sense. Two of the most widely touted applications, balancing checking accounts and filing kitchen recipes, are better done with pencil and paper than on screen. Checkbooks can be carried in a pocket and filled out on the spot. For recipes, one good cookbook holds more data than eight floppy discs and can be thumbed with wet or sticky hands. Mastering data-base software can also be a taxing task, especially for the neophyte. Most data-base programs are marketed for business use; they come with powerful features and inch-thick manuals. Even with...