Word: oven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped at one house where a man was digging at some newly-sprouted crops that popped out of well-groomed furrows. In the small yard adjoining the house there were a couple of pigs eating out of a feeding trough. In the corner was a large, hemispherical earthen oven, where the farmer's wife baked bread. A pile of freshly-cut eucalyptus wood lay next to the oven. The man, very small and with a rough wizened face, had walked up to within a few yards of me and stopped, his wooden hoe in hand. I indicated the peanuts...
...drowning and whose heart was snatched from the funeral pyre by his fellow romantic, Trelawney. Or of Dylan Thomas, a sacrificial votary of drink (Olympian draughts, of course). Since the winter day in 1963 when Sylvia Plath turned on the gas and laid her head in her kitchen oven, she has become a goddess of the thanatophiliacs...
STOVES: A standard, burner-plus-oven electric range swallows $26.91 of power a year. A microwave oven will do most of the same cooking jobs for only $4.35 a year...
...bakery we met Rocky Taurisano and saw two huge floor-to-ceiling rotary ovens. "These ovens were here when Eliot House was built," Taurisano instructed. "We're afraid to replace them--they might be structural." One by one he took cheese cake shells out of the oven. A junior on the tour started to steal a batch of chocolate cake, but the yard-long pan did not quite fit under his shirt and he replaced it undetected...
...Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash out in eye"), or corkscrews ("jab quickly and directly, then twist...