Word: fork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced something new: an electronic watch that uses a tuning fork and hums faintly instead of ticking...
...tuning fork lies flat across the watch and carries small, conical magnets on its tines. When the tines vibrate, the magnets poke into tiny coils, generating a very small pulse of electric current that goes to a transistor and triggers it so as to permit a somewhat larger current to flow through the coils from a battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel...
...consent decree and damages of $1,250 from San Francisco's famed Trader Vic restaurant for putting Danish blue cheese into Roquefort dressing. "Trader Vic's can afford it," explains the association's boss, New York Lawyer Frank O. Fredericks, "but if most restaurants had to fork up $1,250, they'd have to close their doors. It will serve as a dandy warning...
Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...When God had finished making the world," say the natives of Mani, "he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here." Petroprolific Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones...