Word: spooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year sports writers manufacture a little but of color and drama for the Derby. In 1958 it was the fantastic stretch running of Silky Sullivan (who finished eighth.) In 1959 it was Silver Spoon's attempt to become the second filly in history to win the classic. In 1961 the race was pictured as a virtual class struggle and a triumph of the American Way when the ill- bred Carry Back, the horse from the other side of the tracks, won, the race with a brilliant stretch drive. Last year no one made much of as effort to deny...
...thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...
When Germany's Peter Siegert, 26, boldly announced that he would lead a party up the "elevator route," the Italian Scoiattoli (literally, "squirrels") predicted that they would "scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes...
...sucket fork, the work of Jesse Kip. It is a marvelously practical instrument, consisting of a fork at one end for spearing sweetmeats and a spoon at the other for taking up the heavy syrup...
...funeral spoon made by Cornelius Vander Burch in 1678, typical of the flatware that was doled out to the bereaved family's friends, a practice that must have assured well-attended funerals...