Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballroom for more than an hour and voted to allow their leaders to call a strike. "The next we know," claimed Attorney Rudy Torruella, the hotel's negotiator, "is that immediately a fire broke out in the ballroom. In attempts to put out the fire by going through the kitchen door to the ballroom, ((hotel employees)) found that a door was barred, barricaded from the inside." Nonetheless, Torruella refused to speculate about who might have started the blaze. "I would prefer to speak just of facts. The fact is that the fire broke out in the ballroom...
Most investigators agreed that the conflagration began in the ballroom under the mezzanine-level lobby and that subsequent blasts, perhaps caused when the fire hit kitchen gas lines, propelled the flames up into the casino. There were unconfirmed reports that three explosive devices had been found. And in the days preceding the tragedy, several small suspicious fires had broken...
...assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...
...Open the nearest book of matches and make sure that all the matches are facing the same way. A large box of wooden kitchen safety matches can provide hours of entertainment...
...trial involved payoffs in an obscure New York City agency, but the cast of characters and sordid details made for great drama. Here was Donald Manes, borough president of Queens and a powerful Democratic Party boss who killed himself by thrusting a kitchen knife into his chest last March just as the inquiry got under way. Here was Bronx Democratic Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against...