Word: coffeepot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind from ugh-plugs. For women, the average battery of three commercials per station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief argument with wife or kissing wife up to seven times...
...18th century. Lequeu's surrealistic designs for barns shaped like cows, and palaces with columns in the forms of deer and bears have been echoed not only in the fantastic churches designed by architects like Spain's Antoni Gaudi, but also in the animal-and coffeepot-shaped roadside stands of California...
Died. Peter Schlumbohm, 66, jovial German-born U.S. chemist who believed that "a coffeepot should not be a steam engine," in the early 1940s invented the simple Chemex coffeemaker that gently filtered the coffee and made him rich; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffeepot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne and the china was Minton." One memorable meal, in Moonraker, takes 6½ pages for Bond to order...