Word: oven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed a fear of prowlers, and took to sleeping with an ax under her bed. Chambers himself was soon tucking a knife under his pillow. Chambers' brother became an alcoholic, and killed himself by drinking a quart of whisky and cushioning his head on a pillow inside an oven...
...York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
...Manhattan last week, stockholders strolling by a color cutaway diagram of the company's complex new automatic bread-baking machine were startled to see parts of the still picture seem to move. Before their surprised eyes the machine showed how it mixes bread dough, pops it into an oven, and shoots out golden-brown loaves. Shareholders at the giant American Telephone & Telegraph annual meeting in Chicago (see State of Business) were treated to another picture in which Echo satellites seemed to move across the sky bouncing radio waves back to earth in a display that explained the company...
...Jack Paar (28 appearances). Despite the cash struggle going on between Paar and Ed Sullivan, she performed last week on the Paar show, even though she is scheduled to tape a Sullivan show this week. Currently she is at Greenwich Village's Bon Soir, an underground cigarette oven so sophisticated, she claims, that "a nine-year-old boy came in here the other night, and when left...
Texans have often seemed to agree with the lawmaker who cried in 1856 that "universities are the ovens to heat up and hatch all manner of vice, immorality and crime." As though to cool the oven, Texans planted the main campus only a few blocks from the state capitol in Austin. Politicians have seldom left the faculty alone. As recently as 1959, legislators introduced a bill requiring all state teachers to swear belief in a "Supreme Being." It was their notion that the university swarmed with "atheists," who must be Communists...