Word: forking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left lives Ida Bolton (Nancy Marchand), and she has two problems. One is her husband Carl (Richard Hamilton), a man given to "spells" during which he plants his forehead against the kitchen wall or a tree. In this state, Carl bemoans the fact that he has "lost the fork," meaning the fork in the road of life's choices...
...Emily Post, Amy Vanderbilt and Letitia Baldrige, the doyennes of decorum have defined and refined social norms to the point at which a boilermaker in Metropolis, Ill., knows (from his wife) that it is O.K. to eat bacon with his fingers, while french fries should be conveyed by a fork...