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Ruminant. In Black Hawk County, Iowa, Farmer Sheldon Anton finally spotted the cause of an old lump on his cow's flank when he noticed twelve inches of pitchfork handle protruding from her ribs...
Dick waited patiently for the cats to settle down. He was holding a buggy whip and a broom handle, and he had a kitchen chair in case one of them got tough and jumped him. A pitchfork might have been better, but these were his cats (and his life's investment) and he didn't want to scar them. He called to Fay Maloney, his assistant: "Looks like an easy deal...
...went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete chunks showered the water for hundreds of yards around. From a hole on top, reinforcing steel pieces stuck up like pitchfork prongs. Smoke poured out of everywhere-from the sallyports, vents, turrets. If the concussion didn't kill the Japs, Colonel Soule (promoted to brigadier general the next day) was sure they were baked or suffocated. Proudly his task force waddled back to Corregidor...
After the sunburn of the day handling a pitchfork at a hayrack...
...career as an insurance salesman to garner 103 votes as 1903 Socialist candidate for mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Ameringer's Guardian had some 40,000 readers who agreed that modern civilization is "a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wildcat...