Word: boaring
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...Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent so far as to lead the family in carols around the piano...
...start moving out of the executive mansion, his office was jammed with snorting, stomping Talmadge backers. Hulking Representative Jimmy Dykes, the ex-black-marketeer who had likened former Governor Ellis Arnall to a "hawg," bellowed: "We'll get a court of our own." Then, putting on his own boar-like dignity: "You know what MacArthur said -I shall return." Hummon just smiled. Within 15 minutes, he vacated the office -as he had said he would-and Georgia's 63-day fling at two-headed government was over...
...accounts were balanced, for the time being, but the incidents told why the easy camaraderie of Red and U.S. soldiers immediately after their victory had given way to an atmosphere of suspicion. The top Russian and U.S. brass still go boar-hunting at Göring's estate, but the Counterintelligence chiefs are more interested in hunting information inside each other's zones...
...Poached Boar. In the department of Charente-Inferieure, France, the prefect viewed with alarm a new hunting technique: digging up German land mines, reburying them in boar-filled woods...
...Animalist Manifesto. The next three months were feverish with secret political activity. The work of indoctrination and organizing fell to the pigs, who were the cleverest of the farm animals. Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side...