Word: forkfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIS IS HOW it works. After a hard day on the job, the worker ants fork over the acid they collected in the peanut butter to the queen ant. The resulting stuffed up intestinal tract leads her to a cruel fate. Without a queen, the colony quickly succumbs to disorganization and death...
Lithgow avoids reducing Ellard to a Georgian stereotype. His wide chewy expressions and drawly English lessons--"Bah-urd" for board, "Faw-Werk" for fork--are hilarious. But Lithgow also convinces the audience of Ellard's softness and struggle to learn the language he teaches...
...This bread has about the same consistency as Plymouth Rock," he said. "And the soup is kind of salty. No, it's more than kind of--it's definitely salty. It is unusual to find soup you can eat with a fork...
...fork, a key and a watch are placed on a metal table by a white-smocked scientist. A sepulchral figure grimaces with concentration as, by the power of mind alone, he bends into mangled lumps of metal the fork and the key, then the legs of the table and finally even the chair he is sitting on. Yet the watch barely shudders. "Timex," intones an announcer. "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." At last, television viewers understand that they have been watching a sly parody of both the famous Timex slogan and the sort of magic act often...
While the nutrition act does not apply to restaurants, where a growing number of Americans are eating many of their meals, some proprietors have jumped on the bandwagon with knife and fork in hand. Jeff Prince, senior director of the National Restaurant Association, says that labeling the menus at table-service restaurants probably will not work in most cases, but 80% of fast-food franchises have begun to provide nutrition information. "The recession has driven a lot of this," Prince explains. "When a significant portion of the population wants ingredient information, that number can make the difference between success...