Word: forking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both writer and producer. Pleasing both die-hard sports fans and regular theater goers can be a playwright's dilemma. The fan demands a high-degree of authenticity, complete with credible gestures, jargon and appearance. While regulars require a plot offering more than instructions on how to throw a fork-ball...
...social reality while selling stereos. A streetpunk enters the store, ready to be conned into spending all his allowance on speakers. Ken easily convinces him that bigger is better, and introduces him to the eight-foot Dominator speaker. The kid practically drools, violently playing air-guitar, ready to fork over his grandmother, when in walks his girlfriend, 17, barefoot and pregnant. Stricken with remorse, Ken turns down the heavy metal that throbs from the Dominator, and shows the underpriveleged couple a smaller model...
...christened until the mid-18th century, when it was named in honor of John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. A dedicated gambler, Montagu one day slapped a slab of meat between two slices of bread so he could eat without getting greasy fingers or being distracted by a fork and knife as he concentrated on the gaming table. This sort of convenience has delighted sandwich fans ever since. Extolling Montagu's contribution in Getting Even, Woody Allen wrote, "He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much." Other countries dally with sandwiches--France with its croque...
While more than 2000 alumni and their families frolic at the Essex County Club this week, Harvard will fork over almost $1 million to pay for the major reunion festivities. But with nearly $7 million already donated this year by members of the three major reunion classes, University finance administrators are assured that their investment is paying...
...this era of fiscal frugality, state and federal governments have become more and more reluctant to fork over the $100,000 needed to build just one cell. Judges are beginning to order the decrowding of prisons, claiming that the current conditions represent cruel and unusual punishment...