Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Henry Ervin Yarnell on the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet of some 40 outmoded destroyers, auxiliaries and spoon-shallow river gunboats; 2) the fourth U. S. Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists...
...years ago, Gene Sarazen won the Masters' Tournament by virtue of what is probably golf's most historic single stroke -a 220-yd. spoon shot that finished in the hole for a double-eagle 2 on the Augusta National's 485-yd. 15th hole. What Nelson did last week was not quite so spectacular but it was equally effective. He got a birdie 3 at the tenth hole, a par 4 at the nth, a birdie 2 at the 12th, an eagle 3 at the 13th. On the 12th, where his ball had failed by inches...
...months she was three or four years of age. Her enunciation became less distinct, she was careless with her spoon, spilling food, and had to be assisted with her feeding, she would prattle at times and occasionally she soiled herself. She had ceased to read and would have crawled around on the floor had the nurse so permitted...
...some thirty years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she would not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them with a sucking movement. She also would suck the corner of her gown or sheet. She began to soil herself regularly and had to be changed without giving any assistance, the nurse using large cloths in the manner of diapers. She would eat, sleep, make peculiar noises...
...with the idea in our head that all is over for economic royalism when such palaver is spoon-fed to the people by their lawful leader, we set out to week-end in New York, and take one last fling before burying ourself for life in Widener. And we made it a royalistic week...