Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green Turtle, on Cambridge Street two blocks past Inman Square, is a greasy spoon. At night it turns into a hippie-chic restaurant complete with suburbanites in double-knit flares. But the spoons are still greasy, the tablecloth soiled, and the ashtrays overflowing...
...captain George Putman with John Dodge as crew sailed in Division A for Harvard, and took three firsts in the five races to upset the Engineers' ace skipper Allen Spoon. In Division B co-captain David Brownlee with Doug Libby alternated with Chris Middendorf and Edgar Pulitzer, and the two combinations pulled out a second place behind MIT's entry...
...Crimson had their best luck in the four heats at Coast Guard where they had three qualifiers. MIT's Spoon took revenge for his earlier loss in squeezing by Putnam in one heat, but the Crimson co-captain also qualified in finishing second. John Bowers placed second in his heat and Clem Wood tied for second...
That initiated my second suicidal period, during which I came into the office at 11, canceled my account at Brooks Brothers, and began dressing in Sweet-Orr corduroys. I once called my employer at midnight with two questions that had long intrigued me: "What is a runcible spoon?" and "Do you think Geppetto was a good father?" My employer told me that he was weary of my Rare, Quixotic Gestures. So, frankly...
...they are especially difficult to portray. Solzhenitsyn conveys the prisoners' destitution by alternating between dead pan description of bodily pain and cowering before nameless authorities, and emphasis on the miniscule occurrences that bring relief from suffering. Ivan finds a hacksaw blade, gets a little tobacco, and uses his favorite spoon. These few moments in Ivan's day when he feels he can do something that he wants to do punctuate the bleak narrative description of camp routine...