Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about that lamp. When he does anything, whether it is studying eighteenth century literature or spending hours aloft in a rented Cessna 150 working for a pilot's license, or playing a weekly game of tennis with John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, he does it whole-hog, with an eye to getting good results...
...Klan to disappear as a result of the House hearings, but the publicity has already dented membership in most of the South (with the exception of North Carolina, where a number of new Klaverns have been formed). It has also engendered internal dissension. Having learned how high on the hog their leaders live, Mississippi Klan chieftains are thinking of breaking away to see if they can do as well in their own organization...
...been called "the Ty Cobb of squash." "Vic would chew glass to win," says his former Harvard coach, John Barnaby. Niederhoffer has been accused, on occasion, of being a "court hog," deliberately getting in his opponents' way-a capital crime in squash. ("There are two ways of dealing with a court hog," explains a player. "First you talk to him. Then you let him have it right in the butt.") He is also a bit too temperamental for traditionalists' tastes-protesting volubly whenever he thinks an opponent has blocked his way, flinging his arms toward heaven when...
...pronounced sow) also denotes what it sounds like: hog, jerk, liar or anything else derogatory-another bar girl contribution...
From God to Government. Midwestern farmers still shake their heads over his program to raise hog prices by killing off millions of piglets. His later proposal to export farm surpluses to needy countries earned the derisive label of "milk for Hottentots." Nonetheless, Wallace had a profound understanding of farm economics at a time when U.S. agriculture was widely regarded as God's concern, not the Government...