Word: forks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move was the fine hand of Virginia's Harry Byrd, as bitter a foe of Harry Truman as any Republican, and as jealous, too, of the prerogatives of Congress. The Republicans swung in happily behind. "Too long have we permitted the executive branch to sound the tuning fork," declared Republican Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey...
...through their training, the cadets had been taught that one goes around a thunderstorm, or one turns around-but he never, never attempts to go through it. With a choice of flying through thunderstorms to certain death, or of facing the wrath of the horny-headed, fork-tailed Hardin, most of the pilots chose the certain death as the easier...
...unsuccessful, if not dangerous. There is, first of all, no starting point on a circular tray; the unsuspecting diner may find himself commencing his meal as often with a grapefruit as with a leek. Worse that that, the circular trays tend to revolve under the slightest pressure of fork or finger; the centrifugal force generated by a hungry student can send sprays semi-liquid food onto his neighbors. A spinning tray can also cause dizziness...
Wilder stoked himself with scrambled eggs and his eager listeners sat back for a moment. One of them edged forward again, fork in air, and asked, "What are you doing now, Mr. Wilder...
Almost everybody turned out to the oak-covered slope where a semicircle of seats had been set up. White-bearded, 106-year-old Uncle Harve Sparks, who came over from Bean Fork Hollow, sang a tune in his squeaky voice when the parson introduced him. Tall Scott Partin himself was on hand to reminisce about the old feuding days: "There would be mountain prejudices and it would spread . . . You'd have to go in shootin' and come out loadin...