Word: oven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impersonal voice of the controller: "Bombs in the target area. That was a good run, fellows. Have a nice ride home and see you another day." Thigpen banked again and we were on our way back to Guam, six monotonous hours and 2,600 miles away. In a small oven in the cockpit the men began heating TV dinners. They had not seen their target, their enemy, or the effect of their mission...
...Japanese bomber smashed two bombs into the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin. "O'Callahan was everywhere," wrote the navigator of Lieut. Commander Joseph O'Callahan, the ship's Roman Catholic chaplain. Besides ministering to the wounded, O'Callahan manned a fire hose, going into an oven-hot turret to cool off the ammo to throw it overboard. For this Father O'Callahan, who died in 1964, became the only chaplain in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S. O'Callahan was commissioned...
...thumbnail sketches of the poor don't deserve the blithe conclusions that go with them. No doubt they were written by the same person who provokes our pity by citing the instance of bags of flour delivered by a misguided welfare agency to "a household that has no oven." Come now, biscuits can be baked anywhere there is a fire to cook with. I have made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan...
...feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind...
...explosion occurred at 3:15 p.m., when the workers had finished the day's experiments and were preparing to close the lab. Before they left, the oven exploded, sending glass fragments flying through the room and knocking two of the technicians to the floor...