Word: forks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, metropolitan readers of New York's Times and Herald Tribune have paid 2? for these big budgets of morning news. Those 2? barely paid the cost of the blank newsprint for each paper. Beginning this week, half a million New Yorkers had to change their habits, fork out 3? for the Times or the Tribune...
...Leftist Government immediately ordered two more classes to the colors. Each man drafted was ordered to "bring to the People's Army a pair of shoes, blanket, plate, knife, fork and spoon." The Leftist surprise offensive on Dec. 19, which captured Teruel, was the first major victory of the new People's Army. In canceling that victory last week General Franco did not himself win a major victory. For the expenditure of two months' time many lives and much materiel- none of which he could well spare-all he had to show was a wider Teruel salient...
...effort to induce Ulster [Northern Ireland] to unite with the rest of Ireland will have our benevolent neutrality." After Mr. Lloyd George had had a little more contact with Mr. de Valera, the Welshman observed: "Negotiating with that Irishman is like trying to scoop up mercury with a fork...
...fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...