Word: forks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line moves slowly. Gradually he nears the metal cart: tray, spoons, knife, fork . . . anything else? Oh, gray card...
...suffers from a Julius Caeser about as imperial as a bourgeois Huey Long sans pitch-fork and red neck. From a Marlon Brando rendition of Mark Antony which turns him into a thick-skulled gladiator with Actor's Studio eyebrows who reads his lines like Bartlett quotations...
Chilly and swollen from melting snow were the waters of eastern Kentucky's Big Sandy River. In the evergreen-carpeted Cumberland foothills of Floyd County, where the Levisa Fork...
...table was terribly untidy. Breadcrumbs soaked in the damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us. We even leaned on it, growing callous, and delicately picked out of the wreckage the bare essentials. the bitter wine that was needed to keep the evening going...
Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...