Word: fork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubly sure that she is alone, she begins eating. She may start with apples and cheese, but she soon moves on to buttered toast, cookies, milk, mashed potatoes, hamburger, and cold dry cereal. She takes everything with her fingers, even if it is usually caten with a knife and fork. She pushes tiny bits of food into her mouth faster and faster, feeling herself grow full, fuller, and finally much, much too full, but still she goes on Finally, when the mere thought of food disgusts her, she stops exhausted, bloated and hating herself fariously. But before she goes back...
...Along with other taxes, the bill calls for a 60% income tax without a depletion allowance. Although no specific sum is mentioned in the bill, the company may also have to pay a $50 million settlement. Altogether, claims the company, the government's maneuver could force I.P.C. to fork over 102% of its profits each year. The alternative: transferal of the concession to the government for a "fair" price after unpaid "debts" are deducted...
...paladin of justice, Van Heflin is an ingratiatingly drawly but volcanically eruptive goodguy, and Larry Gates makes an icy fork-tongued reptile of the man whose politics are somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. But since the play is rigged for the triumph of good over evil, it is no more intellectually honest than a play that paints the world pitch black. Libel merely caters to an audience's smug self-righteousness, scarcely good growing weather for an examination of moral conscience. Playwright Denker ringingly declares for a responsible free press and due process of taw, which...
Scott Fitzgerald would today be forgotten as a Princetonian playboy who was a silly young man in a silly time-the '20s-were it not for the fact that he was a silly young man of genius. It was his genius to vibrate like a tuning fork to the music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort...
...Businessmen should not try local customs unless they are sure of themselves. "If you really cannot cope with chopsticks, ask for a spoon and fork...