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Word: oven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spooky is going on here.' What rubbish!" Vasily angrily wadded up the paper and tossed it out an open window, not noticing that one edge had caught fire from the hot plate. Determined now that he would indeed have tea, he filled the kettle and jammed it into the oven, extinguishing the pilot light with spillage from the spout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE AFTER MIR | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...addition, HDS has invested in new culinary technology--a Turbochef oven--that will heat food "to perfection" and save labor costs, Condenzio said. Harvard is the first university to use the Turbochef, although hundreds have been sold in New England...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Andrew K. Mandel, S | Title: Loker to Offer New Services in Fall | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...extraterrestrials have landed, that they are a scuzzy lot who deserve to be treated like illegal aliens and that the government has an elite corps of FBI-style agents (notably Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line. Ah, this explains everything: Velcro, liposuction, the microwave oven and why the 1964 World's Fair was held in Queens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE DUMB SUMMER | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...year-old ship has been falling apart at an alarming rate, and the cash-poor Russians have been unable to do much about it. In March, its oxygen system failed; soon after, its gyroscopes quit; and three weeks ago, an ongoing coolant leak caused temperatures to rise to an oven-like 88[degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME TO JUMP SHIP? | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...cheese and shoves it into the little container. One friend ordered a pizza and upon biting into it, his tooth fell out having hit a piece of rock salt. (He got a $10 gift certificate as compensation.) Another friend ordered a slice, which stuck to the side of the oven door despite the employee's attempt to remove it from the reheating oven; she shrugged and served it up hot--and it was eaten happily...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Tommy's Hole of Pizza | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

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