Word: pitchforkness
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...occasionally, intoxicated with a bizarre humor. The desire to escape a barren, futile existence is grimly repressed. It translates into a lurking violence. Three children taunt a woman said to be a hermaphrodite (Cecily Hobbs) and try to impale her on a hoe as if it were a pitchfork. A sadistic stepmother (Amelda Brown) torments her placidly submissive stepdaughter (Tricia Kelly) in order to "feel something." At one point, Val asks Frank: "What are you frightened of?" Frank replies: "Going mad. Heights. Beauty." Says Val: "Lucky we live in a flat country." Churchill interprets the flat country...
...design of the tennis racquet in more than a century, Surely in the past tennis has seen its oddities. Witness Richard Sears, the first U.S. champion in 1881, who used a rectangular racquet. The tennis world has not been immune to other experimentation... a racquet shaped lia a pitchfork, diagonal stringing, crooked handles, and the infamous spaghetti racquet, a springly double-string device which, until its banishment, put a remarkable array of spins on the ball so looking back, it is no small miracle that today oversized racquets have succeeded in a sport so stubborn to change...
...preceding eight innings, the Harvard bats failed at Jeff Folkins' and David DeStefano's offerings like they were hitting water with a pitchfork. Racking up nine strikeouts between them, the Rhode Island hurlers shut down the offense that pounded out five extra-base hits Tuesday (against Northeastern) by not allowing...
...current damage but reckoned that total losses would run into millions of dollars. Farmers reported that up to 20% of some crops had been destroyed. Said a Department of Agriculture spokesman: "The hoppers eat everything in sight. Already we're hearing those old stories about them chomping off pitchfork handles, leaving only the tines...
...devil is usually depicted standing, long tail in evidence (spear on end) and pitchfork in hand. His horns are curved, and while he has hoofs, he does not have hairy legs. When a horned god sits on a rock, reed pipe in hand, and displays hirsute lower extremities and straight horns...