Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grow up and be a secretary." Actually she always wanted to be a writer. Deeply affected by the suicide of her friend Anne Sexton, Jong is determined to be a survivor: "It is vital that other women see that female authors do not all put their heads in the oven, like Sylvia Plath...
...lava stone and placed near the Alamo on the spot where some of its defenders are said to have been burned in 1836. Mrs. Johnson pushed a button, the Ladybird Fountain gushed, and in a way, so did its namesake. Making the best of San Antonio's brick-oven climate, she wished: "Long may it cool the breezes in summertime in San Antonio...
...Chief Wilton Wynn, who recently visited Suez city. "Three knocked-out Israeli tanks are gathering rust at the entrance to the city, with little children playing soldiers on them. In a building still blackened from being burned out, a baker pulls trays of flat bread out of the makeshift oven, while a shop opened beneath twisted iron shutters offers transistors and domestic appliances. Above the din of the crowd, there is the hum of bulldozers and the clatter of sledgehammers as workers battle to clear the debris of hopelessly damaged buildings...
...sharecropper who came north to Michigan to look for work in one of the big factories. He looked for two years, and finally landed a job at Chrysler's Eldon Avenue Gear and Axle Plant, where three thousand people work every day. He was assigned to the No. 2 oven...
...oven Johnson and another man unloaded fiery-hot brake shoes as they came down the conveyor belt. It was one of the worst jobs in the plant. The men worked amid screeching ear-splitting noise where there was no air-conditioning and poor ventilation and where the temperature reached 120 degrees. The lighting was dim, the floors were oily, and a thick blue mist of evaporated coolant made it impossible to see from wall to wall. The men were issued specially lined gloves to handle the hot iron but the grease and the work wore them down...