Word: fork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last thing Gog discovers is his conscience, a capacity to make choices for the first time. Ironically, it does him no good. The book ends with Pilgrim Gog, like Bunyan's Mr. Facing-bothways, approaching a fork in the road-or history-on his weary way out of London. And "he does not know which...
Miller's chief technical contribution to the art of dog psychology is an item he calls the "Hi-Fido." Retailed for $11.95 along with training manuals, it is a tiny tuning fork, attached to a simple chain, that vibrates at 34,200 cycles per second-just above a dog's threshold of hearing. The sound creates a fleeting moment of distraction for the animal. When a dog owner spots his pet doing something wrong-such as chewing on the sofa-he simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted...
...sequence, she is Paulette, grieving as she leads her husband's funeral cortege to the cemetery. Comforting her is Peter Sellers, who tries to cut a path through the widow's weeds by promising her the world. At last Paulette succumbs. When the mourners reach a fork in the road, she and Sellers peel off to the left as the scandalized funeral procession proceeds to the right...
Humming. Most important, Henshel complemented the company's basic Bulova watch by introducing two new lines: the low-priced ($10.95 to $29.95) Caravelle, designed to compete with the Timex, and the top-quality Accutron ($125 and up), a battery-powered electronic watch whose tuning-fork action assures precision, makes the timepiece hum instead of tick. So fast did the new lines catch on that Bulova figures their combined dollar-sales volume during the past fiscal year exceeded overall watch sales of either of Bulova's chief U.S. competitors, Elgin and Hamilton. Not content with that, the company further...
Sione loves rugby. He's loved rugby since age four, when he began playing the sport with coconuts and oranges in his southwest Pacific jungle home. He will eagerly reconstruct every game since then with juice glasses in the Eliot House dining hall at the drop of a fork...