Word: forking
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...rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
...Right Fork. When the zero hour came, Johnny, pale and nervous, stood watch while Gavenda bloodied his fingers tearing down the last bricks. At 4 p.m. the head guard signaled that the day's work was over, and the guards descended from the fortress walls. Gavenda crawled out of the recessed gun port, got a firm hold on the outer wall and swung himself down to the ground. The others tumbled after him. The six men made a dash for a railroad embankment, ran under its cover to a bridge across the Vah River. Gavenda almost fell over...
Near the village of Svaty Peter, the path forked. Gavenda. Bures and another man turned left, going through a quiet village street. Johnny and two other prisoners took the right fork. That was the last Bures saw of johnny...
...Indo-China, 3) forbid German rearmament, 4) haul the U.S. before the NATO Council for welshing on its obligations. Premier Antoine Pinay fumed Gallicly because his budget, which he had promised to balance without increasing taxes, had been worked out on the assumption that the U.S. would fork over. Pinay sent French Ambassador Henri Bonnet to the State Department with an indignant protest. Said Bonnet afterwards: "The two governments did not see the question with the same...
Outside, a man with a crepe-draped Argentine flag perched himself in the fork of a tree and announced dramatically that he would stay there forever. (Rain soon forced him down.) Churches throughout Argentina tolled a slow, mournful death-knell. A month of crises in Eva Perón's illness had put the nation on notice that she would die; by sunrise the citizens had draped buildings and lamp posts in black...