Word: pitchfork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dinner roll during a banquet in Bellevue, Washington, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. He was regaling the table with some Western trivia he had picked up while doing research for his best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. The bookstore owners listened attentively as he described "pitchfork fondue," a delicacy prepared by melting chunks of lard in a huge kettle, then dunking slabs of beef into the oozing caldron with a trident...
...entire nation was headed towards Apocalypse and Newt Gingrich, long barbed tail protruding from a Brooks Brothers suit, one hand grasping a pitchfork, the other gesticulating in rhythm with his wild invective, was greeting us at the pit of hell. And then, as quickly as it had come, the vision was gone. Nervously, I assured myself that I had let my mind exaggerate the case...
...doesn't know his a -- -- from a musket (earliest citation, 1862), his elbow, a hole in the ground, a stalk of bananas, a hot rock, Mammoth Cave, a hole in the wall, third base, his left foot, pork sausage, the back side of a checkerboard, ice cream or a pitchfork...
Many feet of film are dedicated to Joseph's gloveless boxing matches. (Remember, this is the turn of the century.) And even Nicole Kidman's Shannon stabs her love-to-be with a pitchfork early in the movie. Poor Joe gets injured so often that it's a wonder his internal organs remain intact...
...David Broder, Harkin is "the candidate of Bush's nightmares." Business Week calls him a "populist who is raring to sink a pitchfork into the patrician hide of George Bush." The New York Times reports that the 51-year-old Iowa senator "offers his beleaguered party a potent mix of old-time religion, prairie populism and group therapy...