Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Henry J. Kaiser built his Fontana steel mill in 1942 (on a hog farm in California's San Bernardino County) he borrowed $111.8 million from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Of this sum he spent $94 million to build the plant, held the balance for working capital...
When he changed, he went whole hog. Before joining Satyagraha Sabha (Gandhi's "League of People Holding to the Truth"), he gave up his law practice, and with it most of his income and all of its luxurious appurtenances. Life in the Nehru household became a chaos of conferences and political comings & goings, punctuated by arrivals of the police to pack Jawaharlal or his father off to jail. Says Krishna, "This was the beginning of a new life-a life of uncertainty, of sacrifice, of heartache. . . . Since then, going in and out of jail has become an incurable habit...
...Once a little pig was sent abroad. In lands and countries far away he grew up. When he came back home he had grown into a hog. Nothing seemed good enough for him and nothing pleased him here. He went around grunting about things he saw in foreign lands. And he looked exactly like foreign hogs abroad. I feel disgusted to mention him even in a fable...
...psychological warfare. An authority on such warfare against the psychotic Japs felt that the idea of Potsdam was good, but that the retention of "unconditional surrender," even when confined to troops in the field, had made the terms worthless. For his money, the Potsdam offer should have gone whole hog in discarding "unconditional surrender...
...Crimson jumped into a one-run lead in the third when Jack Forte walked, moved to second on Frank Pierce's binge and role home when Mal Allen dumped a pop fly to right. From then on, however, the by were completely hog-tied by Tivnan, who allowed one man to get on for the remaining six frames...