Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have always thought the phrase "Like a hog going to war" had to do with their indecision when they hit a slick spot...
That article in TIME, June 13, on the Mississippi lawsuit wherein the Negro tenant "got for his lawyer old Percy Bell of Greenville, onetime chancery judge and independent as a hog on ice," is an exceedingly well-told story on an interesting subject...
Your readers hereabouts, however, fail to perceive the aptness of your simile in alluding to Mr. Bell's independence. No doubt he is a lawyer who fearlessly does his best for his clients; but how is a "hog on ice" an example of independence...
Before television can turn its corner, it will have to secure from the FCC the wavelengths needed for commercial operation. With current experiments using a 6,000-kilocycle band for each picture transmitter, televisers would require such a hog's share of useful frequencies, that operators of other short-wave services (wireless communications, aeronautical radio, etc.) would fight. All this has the FCCommissioners pondering...