Word: forks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans put away some 26.4 billion quarts of milk (enough to keep Niagara's Horseshoe Falls flowing at the usual rate for one hour), but that was about 35 million quarts down from the previous year. If that trend continues, the U.S. taxpayer will almost certainly have to fork out even more than the $300 million paid for supports for milk and other dairy products...
...Force Academy, is braced by an upperclassman, he sucks in his gut, throws out his chest and brays: "Sir, a doolie is that insignificant whose rank is measured in negative units, one whose potential for learning is unlimited." At meals he sits at attention and lifts his fork from plate to mouth in the rectangular movement of a robot; he shouts his response when asked a question. Until not so long ago, when entering his dormitory, he had to rasp in intercom fashion: "Sir, Air Force Academy jet 201K turning base, three green...
...minor but highly welcome public relations gestures was to wheedle a $15,000 Ford Foundation grant so that he could distribute U.S. books to Indians. Jawaharlal Nehru took a bundle on his last vacation, reported that he was particularly tickled by The Last Hurrah. Ken Galbraith still has to fork out $500 a gross for the book that influential Indians seem to want most. Says he: "I thought it would be a bit raw to have the Ford Foundation buy up a supply of The Affluent Society...
...Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes with newfangled soap; a Swiss cook taught them patiently to prepare Swiss-German food. There are also educators and schoolbooks, lessons in how to use knife and fork and in how to ski, a sport unknown in Tibet. The men have jobs, ranging from digging ditches to carpentry to house painting...
Author Hoving's permissiveness extends to the debatable question of the continental versus the "zigzag" (American) system of knife-and-forkery; Hoving, like Social Mannerists Post and Vanderbilt, endorses the continental form (right hand for the knife, left for the fork, and no switching between bites), ends on a promising note. "When you know the rules," says Hoving, "you can start breaking them...