Word: stove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon play, England's Virginia Wade was extended to three sets before downing cross-Channel challenger Betty Stove 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Wade now faces Natasha Chmyreva, a strong young Russian player who has won impressively in her opening matches...
...Patti Smith is lounging in bed at Howard Johnson Motor Hotel in Kenmore Square. She's wearing a "Rastafarian" t-shirt. Her pencil thin arms fly out of the round stove holes of the too big t-shirt as she talks to some Mr. Jones journalists wearing bow ties...
...history of reinforcements and punishments which channel his growth. As a boy, for instance, he stole a trinket from a store, and felt guilty for a week. Later we learn of family field trips to prisons, and a grandmother's promises of hell "like the inside of a potbellied stove" for sinners. The connection is obvious...
...culinary skills they sharpened in the old country. Vitelli feels she is particularly fortunate because she and her compatriots share such a predilection for edibles. "When two or more Italians--be they men, women or children--get together, just as long as they're within 50 miles of a stove, the main topic of discussion is food...
...horsecar swayed and rattled down Fifth Avenue. At the car's center a small potbellied stove gave off insufficient heat, and mephitic fumes. On the floor was straw as Insulation. My fellow passengers were mostly men, mostly bearded, mostly potbellied like the stove. In fact, saving the desperate poor, everyone in New York is overweight: it seems to be the style...