Word: fork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frying pans contents were now unloaded onto my plate. There being no salt or pepper, I commenced to eat. After struggling with amazing incapacity for ten minutes with my pair of wooden chop sticks, I capitulated to a fork. The Chicken blubber tasted just like chicken blubber, and the herbs like marinated spinach. I asked my friend about the shredded celophane...
About the TV show The Last Word [Aug. 5]: Is not the popularity of this show a kind of snobbishness in reverse? This excessive concern with grammar and its usage is on the level of whether one should wear this or that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...
...fish, supplementing them with garden snakes ("They weren't bad"). He rigged a snare with his cocked revolver at a salt lick, finally bagged deer. In mid-June, certain that his health had returned, he made his first try at getting out by going down the torrential Idle fork of the Kings River, attempted to swim across. He tied his summer flights suit and boots around his neck and gripped his underwear in his teeth, but, out in midstream, he found that he couldn't make it, lost his underwear when he opened his mouth. Making...
...killed without damaging its form and from which he has drained the blood. He replaces this with human blood serum taken from schizophrenic patients. Since the dead fly does not buzz or struggle, Dr. Bercel fools the spider into thinking that it is alive by twanging a tuning fork (middle C) near the web. The spider runs out, sinks its fangs into the fly and greedily sucks up its content of schizophrenic serum. Then Dr. Bercel destroys the spider's web to force it to build...
...Feel & Position. Nos. 10 and 11 are esoteric senses, little known but of great importance: vibratory and two-point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three...