Word: stove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their places. A month ago, members of the Love Brothers, a Hispanic gang, began terrorizing the 100 or so residents of a six-story building on South Fourth Street, tearing out the building's pipes, smashing windows and furnishings and peddling whatever could be moved. They got $35 a stove, $25 a refrigerator, $10 a sink, $3 a steam radiator. By week's end the building was a cannibalized hulk, and all the tenants were gone...
...they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, seasoned rice, beans and peas simmer on a stove and fill the barracks with on a stove and fill the barracks with what for these men are the smells of home. No one seems to mind that the windows have been hastily boarded up after local kids threw bottles through them. The weather is unseasonably mild, and the men know...
...Bottom in Knoxville, Tenn., I never knew how deprived I was to have to sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion or soap and water...
...only her due. As the youngest tennis player ever to play at the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, the 14-year-old with the wide grin and mouthful of braces was everybody's favorite. She easily overpowered her first three opponents, but finally lost to Betty Stove. "I couldn't return her serve because I'm too little," shrugged the 5-ft., 90-lb. Tracy. Said Stove, who is a foot taller: "I never saw Tracy. I only saw the ball...
Despite reports that Keynes is dead and that Jimmy Carter cannot turn the economic stove higher than a simmer, those future business executives across the Charles continue to reap the rewards of the increasing corporate demand for elite technocrats. The Harvard Business School's Class of '77 led all comparable Harvard graduates, as well as graduates from other business schools, with a median starting salary of $22,000, 10 per cent higher than last year, according to a recently released Office of Career Development report...