Word: forks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Said one Managua observer: "[The election] is already stolen." Asked his choice of the two candidates, a Nicaraguan exile said: "It is like being asked which you would rather use to eat soup, a knife or a fork...
Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...