Word: napkinics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...head of a $64 million business turning out close to 700 navigational, communications and control systems and devices for planes and missiles. Although he quit school in the eighth grade, Lear can sketch a complete instrument system for a single-engined plane or a jet transport on a nightclub napkin. In 1950, despite his well-earned reputation as a stay-up-all-night playboy, he won the Collier Trophy for distinguished service to aviation as a designer-manufacturer. In 1956 he achieved a different kind of notoriety by flying his Cessna 310 to Moscow on an impromptu tourist trip (TIME...
...pick up your napkin until others do, and try to make as little noise as possible when eating...
Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...
There's a change of pace in store for the student on week-ends. His full course meal is an Epicurean delight, and he smiles benignly as he folds his napkin and dutifully carries his dishes into the kitchen...
...command post on Jerusalem's anciently named Hill of Evil Counsel, Major General Carlsson von Horn, Swedish chief of staff of the U.N. Palestine Truce Supervision Organization, had just spread a luncheon napkin across his knees when the walkie-talkie telephone began to grunt and gasp. An aide picked it up and took the message: Israelis and Jordanians were shooting at each other in the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus behind the Mount of Olives...