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Word: stoves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending is trite and contrite. He presents her with a length of calico and a new stove. She presents him with twins. It may not be too late to make this marriage work, but Zandy's conversion from misogyny to generosity of spirit comes far too late to save the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Pioneer! | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...worked for the post office in Berkeley and became involved in the Venceremos and Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. On Jan. 10-the day Remiro and Little were arrested-the Harrises left their Oakland apartment so fast that there was still a pot of coffee on the stove waiting to be brewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...stand fiercely on the edge of the island, presenting a glittering metallic wall. A few blocks away, a teenage girl with red-painted finger nails picks up a laundry basket in the greasy kitchen of her small home. She turns down the light of the hamburgers crackling on the stove and goes out onto the back porch, where blouses, pants, and underwear hang on a clothesline. She begins taking down the garments, putting the clothespins in her pocket, when she sees out of the corner of her eye an airplane rising in the sky. A blouse flaps in her hand...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: All Aboard for Boston | 4/19/1974 | See Source »

...hostess with the mostes' " said one old friend. Nancy prefers small dinners with six to eight informed, articulate friends. She smokes a lot but drinks little. Though she does not fuss over gourmet food, she is a competent cook. Not that she spent much time at the stove in her single days. Through her work with the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund and from trips with the Governor, Nancy collected a large, far-flung circle of friends and acquaintances who always called her up when they were in town. However, men who dated her quickly learned that Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1974 | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Given a good bicycle, the investment needed to tour is small: $30 for a light-weight sleeping bag, $15 for cooking utensils and a stove, and $5 for miscellaneous supplies (the more exotic among us require a tent, but a sheet of polyethylene will do quite well). Obviously this is a bareminimum budget, and given the money, there are ample opportunities to spend...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Bicycling: The People's Transportation | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

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