Word: hog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Midway through his second two-year term, he returned to A.J. Fletcher's WRAL. "The old man," says Bailey, "thought the sun rose and set right behind Jesse's left ear." WRAL, that hymn-and-hog-price 250-watter, was now Capitol Broadcasting, an empire embracing the radio outlet, Raleigh's first TV station and a hookup of about 70 rural stations called the Tobacco Radio Network. Fletcher piled three executive titles on Helms and let him do the station's editorials...
...waved to Helen and to the boys, and, as the clatterer moved into the old familiar roar, they swung around with Compie watching for wart-hog holes and roared, bumping along the stretch between the fires and with the last bump rose and he saw them all standing below, waving and the camp beside the hill, flattening now, and the plain spreading, clumps of trees and the bush flattening, while the game trails ran now smoothly to the dry waterholes, and there was a new water that he had never known of... Then they were over the first hills...
Visiting a Midwestern hog farm last week on a three-week U.S. tour, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, groaned with gratitude. "I have received so many gifts," said he, "I may have to open an Iowa room when I get back to Lambeth Palace in London." Runcie, 59, certainly had his hands full with the 40-lb. Berkshire maiden who seemed intent on hogging the spotlight. The gift was nothing to snoot at - as a gentleman farmer back home, Runcie oversees 60 prize Berkshires of his own. The latest addition to the Archbishop's porcine parish listened beatifically...
...profession and, as director of Community-Based Family Planning Services, a performer by necessity. As most of the nation now knows, he will do anything to get his message across. Last year, on the King's birthday, he offered free vasectomies (146 accepted). He makes a prize stud hog available at half price to farmers who agree to practice contraception. He persuaded 241 Bangkok cab drivers to dispense condoms along with family-planning advice, and pays the taxi insurance for cabbies who send in 50 or more people for sterilization; so far, six drivers have qualified. At village fairs...
...surviving; as a con man, a common figure in black fiction. Another way is to "disappear," to pass for white or otherwise become anonymous. The Invisible Man disappeared altogether, forging a life of an existential fact: since he was invisible to the white world anyway, why not go whole hog? The third way-separation-brings America back from fiction to reality. In a sense, separation often seems the most reasonable choice. After all, black Americans have a richly independent culture quite apart from the one that has been imposed upon them, a culture made up of its own music, language...