Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harper's dictionary of words that don't exist (but should) introduced the term algore, meaning "impenetrable blandness." Other terms included vacationoia, defined as the anxiety that overtakes the family far from home when no one can remember whether the stove was turned off. Grapevine offers the following much needed terms...
...overweight woman walked down a narrow hall into the center of her two-room apartment. The blue flames the leaping from the gas burners on the stove served as the source of heat for the whole room...
Fire officials said yesterday that a babybottle warming on a kitchen stove started thefire, which left approximately 70 residentshomeless...
Down below sit the houses so often touted on tourbooks and travel brochures, with picturesque stone walls and neat, well-kept shutters. If they were as authentic as the literature promises, they would contain quaint furniture, a wood-burning stove, maybe a kerosene lamp...
...started from a stove on the first floor andforced its way up the back of the building toconsume apartments at the front end of the house,"he said. "Most of the apartments were completelygutted...