Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beloved Infidel. Among the episodes: Fitzgerald aboard a plane raging at the stewardess and his fellow passengers ("Do you know me? . . . I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"); Fitzgerald insisting on being spoon-fed by Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich and spewing up coffee and trying to bite Gingrich's hand during the feeding; Fitzgerald goading a friend into punching him, and upon being lightly tapped mumbling bitterly to himself, "That big, hulking brute-and me dying of tuberculosis"; Fitzgerald entangled...
...year. But to Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, it was merely a matter of "morality." In the next five years $140 million would be needed for native schooling. The natives should pay for it. "What," cried Verwoerd, "would satisfy the highest demands of morality? Would it be to spoon-feed the natives constantly, allowing them to be beggars who go on their knees to the white man? All they have to do is save 3½ pence [4?] by drinking half a pint less of Kaffir beer a week...
...others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...
...meet it, and stitched them together. At the lower end, this piece of gut was joined to the stomach. The small bowel was joined to the remainder of the large bowel. Tommy's revamped digestive tract worked fine. His one problem: learning to use a knife, fork and spoon...
When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...