Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incapable of reaching out, but he has to do it his way." On hearing that his sister is still so deeply touched by his gesture, Warren grins. "Well, she sent me something nice when I won the Oscar," he says. A moment later he grabs a spoon and gouges a symbolic boundary line across the table. "As for what goes on between Shirley and me," he says, "you can safely call it complicated...
...only under strictly controlled and "professional" conditions, that should not vary according to the character and circumstances of student and instructor. While I would never do all my grading in Tommy's, and in fact do most in my office which is directly across the street from this "greasy spoon", I see nothing wrong with taking some time there for a coffee and doughnut, or with bringing my work with me. I cannot speak for "Harvard Parent," but I find the enforced isolation of any office rather forbidding at times, especially when the rows of books in front...
DIED. Frank W. Epperson, 89, concocter of the Popsicle; in Fremont, Calif. On a cold San Francisco night in 1905, eleven-year-old Frank left a glass of lemonade on his back porch and awoke the next morning to find the drink frozen solid around a spoon that was in it. Nineteen years later, Epperson patented his "handled, frozen confection or ice lollipop." Dubbed the Epsicle, it was quickly a success, but Epperson sold his patent in 1929 to a small company that changed the name to Popsicle. "I was flat and had to liquidate all my assets," he said...
...freshman, who asked but to be identified, said to had filched a fork and spoon for his room. "I am paying $15,000 to come here." he said, adding. "I think I'm entitled to a spoon for my coffee...
Donning a battered top hat, Conference Organizer James Fraser, 53, called the meeting to order by banging a soup pot with a wooden spoon. The members of his audience, who ranged from stock-market dabblers to professionals from Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter, wore buttons proclaiming slogans like THINK FOR YOURSELF. Said Fraser: "Contrary opinion teaches us to be thoughtful nonconformists, keeping us from being led astray by popular opinion...