Word: forks
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...confesses. "I was only able to wait 20 minutes. The second time I distracted myself by calling someone on the telephone." After-dinner snacking in the kitchen was a particular problem. Now Rich washes her dinner dishes in the morning. To make each meal last longer, she sets her fork down between bites, and sometimes even interrupts her meal to do the laundry...
...compensate for my shallow theoretical background, I played with sheer guts. From a king pawn opening, undertaken on Reinfields's advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...
...away from the Washington Post to make trouble for Barbara Walters of NBC's rival Today, Quinn quit. The victim of a premature publicity buildup and her own inexperience, Sally had also an unfortunate style: she picked over the news as if she could not decide which fork to use. She will join the New York Times's Washington bureau in March. Miss Quinn, 32, was cautious about plans to marry her former boss, Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, 52. "That's open to a great deal of speculation," said Sally, about that fork...
Gordie demonstrated his potential for the ski team at an early age. In third grade he stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, grasping tightly to ensure that the contact was good. It wasn't that he was trying to kill himself, he just figured that it might be interesting...
...little evidence, though, to suggest that the line would be a moneymaker. If it is not, the Government will end up sole owner-at a cost of several billion dollars in debt that it would have to repay on top of about $ 1 billion in cash it will fork out to get the corporation rolling...