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...history. Wine is the fruit of man, but it is connected to the terroir. It is important to maintain that sense of differentiation." It's not that the best French Burgundies and California Cabernets are losing their terroir. Instead the critics are crying foul over mass-produced wines that hog the grocery-store shelves. A new documentary has poured gasoline on the debate: Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovino is the wine world's Fahrenheit 9/11, an indictment of big corporate wineries that Nossiter claims are killing wine's soul. To such critics, Gallo's international brands are as scary as McDonald...
...once and end his life. But one of his cellmates ratted him out, and the MPs introduced him to the IRF. The IRF process was a little more ad hoc then: it meant receiving a good old-fashioned a__ whipping, after which the lucky detainee would be hog-tied--made to kneel with his hands behind his back and the shackles on his hands and feet locked together--for four hours...
...Chinese oatmeal for breakfast. He cooked on a hot plate and slept in the hall, while the two couples had one small bedroom each. But it worked great. I loved the place. Easterners had a time getting used to all this primitive discomfort, but I was in hog heaven. It was also a completely democratic society. Oppie saw to that--big shots and flunkies like me all living together. Every week we had a colloquium in one of our two movie theaters, where we would be told what everyone was doing. Once in a while some military guy would come...
Billing himself as the “death dog with the hog log,” Ellroy involved the audience immediately with his vibrant demeanor and booming voice. Amid ever increasing laughter, he thanked them for coming and “taking time off from your drug habits, your sex lives and your misguided efforts to unseat President Bush...
...such a climate, and with their new puppet movie Team America: World Police, they remain as incisive and furious as we’ve come to expect. Their job has always been to drive the swine out onto clear pastures, exposing the liars and mocking the jerks who hog our airtime and control our country—and with Team America, their satire reaches a more global scope than the duo ever has before...