Word: forks
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...next flash of lightning they could see the baby moving. It was still alive. They could hear its high-pitched squeaking as one of the adults took the baby in its jaws, and gently placed it in a fork among the high branches of a tree...
...been knocked over in Hiroshima; in Nagasaki they were snapped in two. But the devastation in Nagasaki was limited, to an extent, by its topography; from the harbor, the city radiated northward in two valleys, separated by steep hills. The bomb exploded over the Urakami valley, Nagasaki's northwesterly fork, and the worst of the damage was contained there. The destruction, nevertheless, was infernal. About 74,000 were killed instantly. The Urakami Catholic church, which had the country's largest Christian congregation at the time, was destroyed; more than two-thirds of the congregation died as a result...
...where the virtues and vices, the chaos and order, the light and dark side of baseball came together for the All-Star Game. The "Tornado," Hideo Nomo, touched down, of course, and everyone was eager to see the Dodgers' Japanese rookie with the outrageous windup and the diabolical fork ball. But while Nomo was tailed by 150 Japanese journalists and almost as many American ones, a bookish-looking Atlanta Brave went largely unnoticed, even though Greg Maddux is the best pitcher of this generation. That's partly the failing of the baseball media, but then Major League Baseball has never...
...hell would I want to believe that dropping a spoon means that a woman is coming to visit me?" asks first-year Abigail E. Baker. "Or that dropping a fork means a man is coming...
Superstition is not required of Harvard students. Not even for Folk and Myth concentrators. (But my roommate can certify that I dropped a fork at lunch this week. When can I expect my man to arrive?) Still, many sympathize with first-year Nailah P. Robinson, whose rationalism has its limits . "I don't believe in superstitions," says Robinson, "but I don't want to take chances...