Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrown a day's accumulation of junk mail and the sports section of the Boston Globe, fine sources of energy, into his antique Glenwood woodburning cookstove, along with some dry birch kindling and some twelve-inch splits of coarse grained red oak. He has watched the ancient oven thermometer, as reliable as the day it was made 80 years ago, climb to 425° F. That's a little high. Fiddle with the damper. Now pop in three bread pans full of cracked-wheat dough...
...even Barbie can't keep up that whirlwind pace indefinitely. This season she has a place of her own, the "dream house" ($115) where she can ponder the more serious questions she faces as an adult. Barbie can cook dinner in her microwave oven, relax in her beauty bath, or read on her single...
...shifts at the plant throughout the period of greatest danger. For days, the engineers had not known for sure just what was happening in the overheated reactor building where radiation levels reached as high as 30,000 rems-a concentration that would instantly fry a human, like a microwave oven cooking a steak...
...Haller, preparing a sit-down dinner for 1,340 people who were dropping by on short notice was a bit of a challenge. The 1,100 Ibs. of strip sirloin had to be cooked at the Mayflower Hotel, six blocks away because the Executive Mansion did not have enough oven space. One other problem was that 110 of the meals had to be kosher. Schleiders Caterers of Baltimore did not get the call until Saturday, but they were able to prepare kosher meals similar to the regular fare that would be served on the big night, using margarine instead...
...neighbor in Camden offers an observation: "Just because your cat's got kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits." And, for outlanders, an amplification: "Both his parents come from Philadelphia. He's not a down Easter. But he's workin...