Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suits for back pay rose to billions, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel, Lee Pressman, admitted that the whole business had got out of hand.* Cried he: "They are fantastic. Local lawyers have gone hog-wild. Suits for those incredible sums have fanned the flames of anti-unionism...
...TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
Coach Kopp's men will be anxious to prevent a repeat of the first performance when both teams hog-tied their opponents defensively. A fast break may perhaps be unveiled tonight by the Crimson in an effort to upset the shore patrollmen's tight formations...
Trichinellae are usually transmitted to humans by infested pork, where they lie in wait coiled up in little cysts. When such pork is eaten (by a man or a hog) without thorough cooking, the cysts dissolve; the liberated worms mate and multiply in the intestines. The young worms wriggle into the lymphatic ducts, migrate to the muscles, and enclose themselves in cysts. One meal of improperly cooked infested pork is enough to start trichinosis...
...hog-growing venture was already under way. Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera. Rockefeller will subscribe $200,000 to the project, which will probably include a demonstration farm near São Paulo, but Brazilians will be invited to put up most of the money...