Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopping children from stampeding into the empty schoolroom or playing with the useless firehose that found its way in there along with four enormous pairs of fireman's boots. Gifts from the Great White Government. Out of the pouring rain, Pierre would bring in firewood for our stone-cold stove and water that we were too lazy to get for ourselves...
...shelling peas and chatting it up across every imaginable communications gap. The stranger at their door, though generally troubled, is rarely dangerous; his problems are readily soluble through immersion in the pot of tolerance, good will and homely wisdom always asimmering on the back burner of the old wood stove...
...their country's problems. A young Birmingham housewife mirrored this frustration when she told TIME: "The fight has been taken out of the people. You have Labor in, then suddenly the Conservatives come back, and then Labor again. It's like another cook taking over the stove and buggering the dinner. I don't care who does it just as long as something is done...
...most popular section, Osaka offers teppan yaki, a preparation of bite-size pieces of tender beef broiled in front of you on an open stove. The third section, with standard restaurants and chairs, serves the traditional Western favorites--sukiyaki, teriyaki and tempura. All full meals are accompanied by a delicious Japanese soup called miso, sunemono, a crab meat salad, and all the green tea you can drink. Of the liquors, the sake and plum wine are particularly worth trying...
Another spare-time kneader, the California Institute of Technology's director of publications Ed Hutchings Jr., 60, of Altadena, bakes loaves of "basic white" with bran or wheat germ each Saturday. "Kapow!" he says over the stove. "If you've got any frustrations, this is the way to get rid of them...