Word: stove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went into court to press charges of extreme physical abuse against their father. Kallinger languished in jail for seven months awaiting trial because he was unable to raise the $75,000 bail. When he finally stood trial, his sons testified that their father had chained them to the kitchen stove and beaten them...
...zoomed toward $1 billion a month. Italy's foreign indebtedness is now nearly $17 billion, and the latest loan of $2 billion from West Germany is supposed to be paid back in March. But the money has disappeared as fast as a "drop of water on a hot stove," according to outgoing Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, and Italy is going to need even more loans in the next few months to stave off bankruptcy and pay for oil. Italy is more dependent on imported fuel than any other European country and has been especially hard hit by the rise...
...gloom to a six-room, rented house that he named "Bleakmoore," evoking echoes of Emily Bronte. But he is by no means a recluse. At least once a month he invites four or five like-minded friends over for a "banquet" of turkey cooked on a 1915-vintage parlor stove, plays the piano (Chopin is his favorite composer) for them or else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition an old player piano and often works into the small hours on a job that...
Kitchen No. 2 (Geoffrey and Eva's) is a blueprint of architectural chic, but its sanitary appointments compare unfavorably with those of the Black Hole of Calcutta. When Jane sees Eva with her head in the oven, she assumes that Eva is cleaning the stove. Not so. While Jane takes over the stove scouring, Sidney copes with a stopped drain, and Ronald dances an electrocution waltz with some naked wiring, Eva sleepwalks her way fixedly toward suicide. She tries to jump out a window, impale herself on a knife, throttle herself with a rope, electrocute herself and take poison...
...young Indian, listening in the growing darkness to one crackling tape recording of Indian songs being sung by cousins down the coast in La Romaine. The batteries were all but dead, reducing the singing to a dull moan, so he would take them out and put them on the stove every once in a while. And it would sound like singing for a few seconds, then slow down again. A drunk man came tapping at the window, calling "Nikahan, Nikahan," who sat still in the gloom until the man stumbled away under the northern lights...