Word: forks
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...though, that the First Family?Jimmy, Rosalynn, Amy, Chip and Jack?soon became about as isolated as a modern First Family can get. Climbing aboard an 8-ft. by 20-ft. wooden-floored rubber raft, they set out for a threeday, 71-mile ride down the utterly uninhabited Middle Fork of the Salmon River. To be sure, Secret Service agents bobbed along near by in other rafts, and rotating teams of reporters trailed at a distance?but with firm orders to keep out of the President's sight. Indeed, as Carter cast off, he aimed his own 35-mm camera...
...should I be talking about running for President?" he said as he waved the big fork in the air. "There's a Democrat in the White House, there's no moral crisis in the country. What's the reason for running? For power? For what?" If Carter were not down in the polls, Kennedy added, nobody would be asking him questions. "When Carter goes down," he said wryly, "I go up." He had another thought about that. "The press made Jimmy Carter, and now they're trying to destroy him. I'm going...
...Kiley dragging poor Don Quixote out of the closet one more time in Man of La Mancha, which will be at the Music Hall. He was great in 1966, and the play really is a winner--if you've never seen it before. But remember, you'll have to fork out $6.50 just to get in, and the good seats go for an unbelievable $22.50. And Kiley doesn't do the Saturday matinee...
Take the following example. An infant, perhaps not yet verbal, sits in a highchair attempting to eat with a fork. The fork suddenly gets out of his hand, falling to the floor. Someone kindly hands him another and shortly it too falls to the floor. The third time we are all watching. The child slowly leans toward the side on his chair and intently follows the fork as he again drops it to the floor. Has he experienced directly some order in the world? He is no Newton. He cannot write it down. He may not even be able...
...Caillol with known police records, and had discovered the house where the baron had been confined during the last three weeks of his captivity. When he was led to the site, a modest two-story dwelling in suburban Savigny-sur-Orge, 15 miles south of Paris, Empain recognized a fork that he had used while held there and several empty packages of his American-brand cigarettes...