Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother, determined to keep an eye on her son's computing activities, moved the machine out of his bedroom and into the kitchen...
...shaped bodies gamboled half-naked on the lawn. Scatology being the stock and trade of little boys' humor, the littlest grandsons strategically maneuvered a plastic dog dropping everywhere they thought the thing's disgusting appearance might provoke a rise, giggling as they schemed. For the adults, the kitchen would be the free-fire zone; everyone would take his best shot, the vegetarians would sup alongside the carnivores...
...embassy had not been finished when a terrorist zigzagged an explosives-laden truck around concrete barriers and set off a blast that killed at least 13 people, including two Americans. With a smile, the President then suggested a singularly inappropriate analogy: "Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would." He added that, although the suicidal driver "got close, he never did get into the compound." Actually, the truck blew up within 30 ft. of the embassy's front door, well within the guarded area...
Reagan's "kitchen" remark drew immediate political fire, but the President did not stop there. He offhandedly seemed to shift the blame to previous Administrations for the third devastation of U.S. installations in Beirut within 18 months, all of which cost a total of 260 American lives. Responding to a question about embassy security from a student in a campaign rally at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Reagan said, "We're feeling the effects today of the near destruction of our intelligence capability in recent years, before we came here-the effort that somehow seemed...
...furor, even some conservative columnists assailed Reagan. George Will wrote, "The President's laconic, complacent comparison to home improvements misses a few points: the Commander in Chief has more leverage over his forces than the rest of us have over carpenters. And if carpenters are dilatory, the kitchen is inconvenient; if the Commander in Chiefs employees are dilatory, people die." The New York Times's William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, called Reagan's remarks on the bombings "even more pusillanimous than Jimmy Carter's protracted hand-wringing at the seizure of hostages in Tehran...