Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tired of It All. Often Narriman sat for hours with her teetotaling husband at a nightclub without exchanging a word, while he accompanied the orchestra by banging the silverware, or led the musicians with a spoon. He gambled heavily. His tublike figure became familiar on the Via Veneto, puffing down to newsstands to fuel up on comic books and spicy magazines...
...graceful swans paddling neck to neck about a blue lake. His Hesitation Waltz is a picture of two oranges decked out in masks, eying each other warily. One of the favorites: Night at Pisa, which shows the famed leaning tower considerately propped up by an outsize kitchen spoon...
Each operation lasted two hours or more, and each time Rodney stood it well. This week, he was again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...
LABOR Steelworkers New Boss "I was born," David John McDonald once recalled, "with a union spoon in my mouth." That was 50 years ago, in Pittsburgh, where his Irish-immigrant father, a steelworker and dedicated union man, was out on strike. Last week, in the city of his birth, Dave McDonald was nominated without opposition for the presidency of the United Steelworkers of America. He will be formally elected next month, when the union's 1,100,000 membership will be polled...
...three years ago. Billy's face was expressionless, his eyes never seemed to move, he could barely raise his eyelids. He could hardly swallow, and for two years he had to be fed through a tube. His arms were so feeble that he could not lift a spoon to his mouth, and he had to have steel braces to be able to stand...