Word: forking
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...shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave the tone, and the Sorrow Songs were uttered...
...kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from the age-old knife-fork-spoon controversy to the compatibility of good breeding and petting...
University labor relations have taken a surprise fork on the glory road of conservatism. With yesterday's announcement by Vice-President Reynolds of a reduction in the work-week of dining hall employees from six to five days without any loss in take-homepay a significant step has been taken in the direction of the economic realities...
Silver Lining. In Milwaukee, Joseph Lobner, after a three-year stomachache, finally had himself Xrayed, found he had swallowed a fork...
...opens with a glimpse at the type of training the Office of Strategic Services gave its men before sending them off with false credentials, fancy bombs, trick cameras, and guns disguised as pipes to befuddle the Germans. All sorts of little things, such as being sure to keep the fork in the left hand on account of that's the way Europeans eat, were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member...