Word: forkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pier F in Jersey City, dock workers were loading 26 big cases, marked "Used Industrial Machinery," into the American Export Lines' Executor. The twelfth case slipped from the loading fork, crashed six feet to the concrete floor, and split open. Trying to repair the case, cooper Raymond Grimm found inside a package holding 50 one-lb. tins of TNT. They were labeled "U.S. Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found...
Edward Asbury O'Neal III is no dirt farmer. A jovial man with a Southern planter's courtliness, he likes good clothes, good living and glittery functions. He habitually has two bourbon toddies before dinner and is equally at ease wielding a salad fork or a gavel ("Let's us folks give that gennaman from Miss'ippi a chance to say what's botherin...
...usually the best revue in town. While the food is fair, the prices, particularly the $1.50 cover and $2.00 minimum on weekends, do not rest lightly on undergraduate stomachs. Most noticeable of all is the impression inevitably generated by the atmosphere that to tell a funny story, hold a fork incorrectly, or worst of all, hold hands under the table, would be distinctly out of place in this sanctum of respectability...
...Altus (pop. 8,593), the seat of Jackson County, there were three days of festivities-a banquet, parades, fireworks. The big event was dedication of a new 100-ft. dam across the North Fork of the famed Red River...
...learns how relentlessly the I.T.U. will take care of him. In a strike, it will pay up to 60% of his wage. In old age, it will pay him a pension, or put him up at the cozy Printers' Home at Colorado Springs. When he dies, it will fork over $50 to $500 in death benefits...