Word: oven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone hearing these lines now cannot help being reminded that three months after recording them, their author put her head in a gas oven. But as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, it is a mistake to view Plath's poems in the light of her suicide; like all good poetry, they stand on their...
...Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...
...aerosol sprays can destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere that protects earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays (TIME, Oct. 7). The state legislature banned the sale after March 1, 1977, of aerosol cans that use chlorofluorocarbon compounds as propellants-mainly hair sprays, oven cleaners, insecticides and deodorants. Opponents of the measure claim that there is no hard evidence that the chlorofluorocarbons actually damage the ozone layer. But the Oregon lawmakers preferred not to wait for final proof, and the bill is expected to be signed by Governor Robert W. Straub...
Once a phenomenon limited chiefly to the auto industry, recalls of defective products have burgeoned into a way of business life that affects makers and buyers of all sorts of items-TV sets, toothbrushes, light bulbs, oven cleaners, snowmobiles, power saws, mattresses and cosmetics. Cars still account for a sizable portion of the recalls: from 1966 through the end of February 1975, 45.7 million foreign and domestic autos were called back for inspection or actual repair. But in 1974 alone, 25 million product units other than cars were recalled, according to E. Patrick McGuire, marketing management research director...
...varsity tennis team upped its record to 11-1 yesterday with an easy 10-0 victory oven an outgunned Williams squad at the Palmer Dixon Courts...