Word: forkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wires and mechanisms." By last week Sponsor Crosby had had a grand piano hauled into the middle of the lake, where it was expected shortly to sprout water lilies, and Painter Dali had dunked a manikin near the shore and was trying to ornament her face with a fork...
...with thinning grey hair and bushy black eyebrows, wandering dazedly. On his cuffs and under his fingernails were bloodstains. In the bedroom lay the body of his wife, her head bashed in and innumerable stab wounds in her body. They also found a hammer, poker and large carving fork...
...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...
...Mary Lamb threw a fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly...
...hospital service"-so Breathitt's only hospital is closing. The hospital doctor is going away, leaving only two physicians and young, overworked County Health Officer Frank K. Sewell to cope with the trachoma (eye inflammation), syphilis, gonorrhea in Breathitt's remote mountain shacks. To get to Morris Fork for a clinic once every six weeks, Dr. Sewell has to ride mule-back or walk the last five miles across two mountains...