Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact is that Britain is plunging into a deep recession, and the likelihood of a bitter winter ahead. Unemployment has reached 1.9 million, or 7.8% of the work force, the highest since the soup-kitchen days of the 1930s; it now seems inevitable that by next year the figure will rise to 2.5 million. Complaints are pouring in from businessmen as well as union chiefs. In its quarterly report released last week, the Confederation of British Industry painted what one business leader called "as gloomy a picture as it is possible for anyone to paint." Says Len Murray, general secretary...
...pleasant man might have been talking across the backyard fence or maybe chatting in the kitchen with the kids. He seemed relaxed and natural, but he was addressing millions of viewers and making the most important-and very likely the best-speech of his career. Ronald Reagan masterlily delivered his acceptance address, an event that may turn out to be pivotal to his campaign. He performed with a skill that surprised even his admirers and dismayed his foes, smoothly repackaging phrases and lines from speeches he has been making for months. In text and delivery, he accomplished what...
...right," Ford conceded. "But I have dibs on the toaster oven in the upstairs kitchen...
...good shot. I grew up eating venison"). Her mother, trained as a beautician, worked counters at local truck stops. During long evenings at home, her father played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and her mother sang while she and her younger sister Randy sat back at the kitchen table and listened. "It was strictly country," she says. "I loved the songs more than the singing. Country music is a storytelling...
...girl, and wounded eleven before fleeing to a nearby fire station. There he critically wounded himself with a shot in the forehead from the .22-cal. pistol. When policemen went to his isolated farmhouse eight miles from Daingerfield (pop. 2,800), they discovered his wife Gretchen bound to a kitchen chair with rope and telephone cord. On a table was a note: "Jeremiah says the King is the King of Kings." In the basement, the officers found a letter from the Soviet embassy in Washington informing King that he could not become a Soviet citizen, plus records of about...