Word: forking
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About to spear an artichoke with her fork, a diner seated across the table from Diet Specialist Ancel Keys asked: "Do you approve of artichokes?" "Absolutely," replied Keys, downing a glass of polyunsaturated white wine...
What was the incentive to fork over $1,000? It certainly wasn't the food...
...sucket fork, the work of Jesse Kip. It is a marvelously practical instrument, consisting of a fork at one end for spearing sweetmeats and a spoon at the other for taking up the heavy syrup...
...troubled France near the end of World War II only because the Holy See did not want to spare a top man for that messy post. But the French were charmed by Roncalli's humility and abilities as a raconteur?as well as by his reputation as "a heavy fork"?and in 1953 Pius XII gave him a red hat and the metropolitan see of Venice...
...keep the radio spectrum clear of outmoded but garrulous space vehicles, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is turning to the small electronic timekeepers that Bulova Watch Co. developed for its Accutron wrist watches. To measure time, these timers use a transistor-controlled tuning fork that runs indefinitely on a tiny trickle ( eight-millionths of a watt) of electric power; a battery the size of a dime will keep one of them humming for a year. The whole apparatus weighs less than three ounces, and it can easily be set to turn off a satellite's transmitter after...