Word: forks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party to a Thanksgiving holiday* at the Augusta, Ga. National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream...
Among Shapley's interests are his ant theories--"I've picked the creatures off stone walls in dozens of counties"--and his debunking of pseudo-science. At a faculty gathering, for example, a fellow professor recalls Shapley's pacing about the lawn with a divining fork, "only to reveal a Princeton instructor's hidden bottle...
...watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto his snap-brim hat. Ike invited Hoover to help with the steaks. Hoover seemed reluctant but finally complied when Ike gave him a long-handled fork and suggested: "Here, turn that fella over...
...test my friend. The conditions: he could introduce me to the most 'exquisite' dish of my career and if my palate agreed, I would pay the bill. We stopped at a restaurant where my friend whispered some hasty instructions to the waiter. Minutes later came wooden forks and an earthenware crock full of hundreds of steaming, crackling, silvery creatures. And I had my first taste of baby eels (angulas), shiny and tiny as pins. They are boiled in a brew of black sauce and garlic, then fried in sizzling olive oil with garlic and red peppers, and must...
...housewives this fall will be taught the proper way to serve all the dishes they are taught to prepare on TV's countless daytime cooking shows. Giving them expert advice on the correct fork and the perfect place setting, as well as on dozens of other subjects-from Kissing in Public to Asking Personal Questions-will be Amy Vanderbilt. the latter-day Emily Post, author of Doubleday's 700-page Complete Book of Etiquette...