Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolled on to Omaha by bus. He flew to Buffalo Bill's old territory around North Platte, and to the cowtown of Alliance. He hung professionally over the ring of a hog auction, attended a farm picnic of hot dogs and baked beans, spoke from the top of a hotel marquee with his hair flying in the wind...
Jimmy Petrillo was afraid of being thrown and hog-tied by the Taft-Hartley Act. As a result the radio networks found that Jimmy was just about the nicest fellow who had ever picked up a fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving...
...scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole hog in daring-i.e., to tackle so powerful a subject, entrust it to strong men with bold ideas, guarding only against artiness and pretension-would be in serious danger of turning out a major movie...
There was one great difference between 1948's decline and the commodity slide of 1920. This time the farmers had a cushion of cash to fall back on. Their banks were bulging with savings. Said Karl Wagner, an Iowa hog-raiser: "Very few of us farmers are out on a limb. We've got bonds stuck away for occasions like this. I'm staying in business...
...crux of Alsop's proposition for world peace was power politics. "We have power, economic and technological strength more gigantic than our eastern adversary," he claimed, and advocated hog-tying Russia's expansion policy by securing the friendship and economic control of her neighbors by means of the Marshall Plan...