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Word: kitchener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from a neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in Arms Over Crime | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...billion) was in no mood to compromise when some 5,700 Transport Workers Union mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground employees walked out three weeks ago. The carrier responded by selling its food-preparation unit to Marriott In-Flite, an airline caterer, thereby eliminating the jobs of 700 striking kitchen employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Determined to Tough It Out | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...heart of the basic political question underlying all the ceremony. Asked by a reporter whether he felt affected by working in the room where SALT II was hammered out, Karpov replied that if both sides are cooperating to reach an agreement, they could do their work even "on the kitchen floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Small Talk in Geneva | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...report reads like a description of a dangerous kitchen, whatever the intentions of its authors. In a letter distributed in January to nearby residents, ADL misleadingly devalues the term "nerve gases," citing "tiny" quantities of chemicals, that are "no more volatile than water." The outrageous association of nerve gases with water refers naively to how comparable their boiling points are, when the criterion should be toxicity. Finally, in a press release on March 7, ADL president, John F. Magee, announced that "not once have city officials expressed concern to us about the safety of the laboratory." If two years...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: No Easy Solution | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

Georgia Bird, a calico woman, has managed to raise five sons and a daughter, as her famous boy explains, "cooking in restaurants and such," having been something of a kitchen legend herself. Her husband Joe had a tragic thirst and killed himself in 1975 about a year after their divorce. From a dwarf named Shorty, the late proprietor of Shorty's pool hall, the boys first learned that their father had been a terrific basketball player and might have gone places had he not left school around the eighth grade to begin a life of work. Relating this memory, Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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