Word: forks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energetic president of a small Ohio electronics firm who "wouldn't eat an egg unless it was fried in bacon grease" His lunches were executive size. He matched his business cronies drink for drink. He smoked "pretty heavily" and exercised with a knife and fork. In the winter of 1981 doctors informed Ford that his cholesterol levels were dangerously high; by April he required a quadruple coronary bypass operation. He emerged from the hospital determined to revise his ways radically. Today he does not smoke, he exercises four or five days a week, and he sticks scrupulously...
Sadly, George Ford is right. By the time the average American puts down his fork for the day, he has consumed the equivalent of a full stick of butter in fat and cholesterol. This is despite more than 25 years of warnings from doctors and the American Heart Association about the dangers of such oleaginous indulgence. All their good advice, plus the urgings of the health-and-fitness movement, has, it seems, succeeded only in making us feel guiltier as we plow our way through the eggs Benedict. Although intake of animal fats has been declining, American men continue...
...freshman, who asked but to be identified, said to had filched a fork and spoon for his room. "I am paying $15,000 to come here." he said, adding. "I think I'm entitled to a spoon for my coffee...
Dawkins insists that "in no way was I disillusioned with the Army." The decision to resign was a "fork in the road," he says, that turned into "a very busy intersection" with many job offers. Investment banking had a special allure, one that Dawkins believes offers an opportunity to develop a variety of expert skills. His friends predict that he will establish the obligatory Wall Street base and then go into politics. He leans to the Republican side, though he maintains close contact with the Kennedy clan. Says Dawkins: "I am very serious about doing something with my life...
...when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...