Word: forking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snakes, had presented dinner to an African spitting cobra, a green mamba and two Indian cobras. In the fourth cage were two tiger snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child in an accident with a rubber...
Orchestra conductors, like the fork-tailed petrel, tend to be migratory in the spring. Among this season's notable migrations...
...hand back to Alleghany's treasury his 130,000 shares of I.D.S. voting stock (thus giving Alleghany 48% control), in return for a like amount of nonvoting stock. In addition, the defendants will pay $3,000,000 in cash to Alleghany to settle the claim. Chairman Kirby will fork over $1,250,000; Bob Young's widow, Anita O'Keeffe Young, will pay another $1,050,000; and the remaining $700,000 will come from the Murchison interests...