Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannon Falls, in the rich, rolling farmland of southeastern Minnesota. The crowd at the fair grounds, mostly slow-spoken, slow-thinking Scandinavian farmers, was stolid and quiet, but attentive. It was the same story next afternoon at Elbow Lake, when Joe Ball went on right after the hog-calling contest...
Happy over a contract that virtually sewed up the whole motor industry, exultant over Mr. Ford's whole-hog capitulation, U.A.W. officials declared: "Agreement by the Ford Motor Co. to establish a union shop sets a pattern for the industry which, we believe, will be universally adopted before the end of another year...
...Purchases Donald M. Nelson set the U.S. goal at $35,000,000,000* of defense production a year, which meant a corresponding decrease in civilian production. The purchasing agents were urged to adapt their buying policies to a long defense pull, to seek substitutes for strategic materials, not to hog inventories, so that no manufacturer should be short of materials while another's warehouse bulged...
...which enables a people to bear arms? Once this spirit dominates a people, the will finds a thousand ways, each of which ends with arms!" For those who could not find this spirit, or found it repellent, Americans in their homelier days posed the alternatives in plain English: Root, hog...
...Senator was "the biggest hog on Capitol Hill," another "a total loss-without insurance," another a "smart aleck." Libeled Senators breathed fire, whetted their knives for Neely's appointee...