Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro was raised off and on by an aunt, a grandmother, a godmother, an uncle and, finally, by his mother and her new man. He went to school occasionally, but was endlessly yanked out to tend the oxen, water the hog-plum trees, deliver the tortillas his mother made, and work as a hired hand on farms. He was beaten with fists, whips and sticks. Before he was ten, "there was this older girl . . . She needed a man already and well, she forced...
...Runner was fifth. Then one of the Formulas ran out of gas. Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed up-until his reserve tanks ran dry and he had to switch to the main fuel tank. Lucky Moppie stopped dead. By the time Bertram got his engines going again, Abbott's Rum Runner, damaged as it was, had passed everybody...
...gravest mistakes was to underestimate his antagonist, bear-shaped District Attorney Henry Menasco Wade. Belli referred to him as a yokel and a hog caller. But Wade's slow twangy drawl and furrowed face camouflage a tough, sharp mind. Under Wade, says a veteran Texas trial lawyer, Dallas County has "the toughest prosecution in the state of Texas." During the trial, Wade made a sparrow-and-peacock contrast with Belli; he played the earnest, rumpled country boy v. the gaudy city slicker, complete with red velvet briefcase. And Wade certainly knew that in the eyes of a Texas jury...
Beef to Impress. Butchering still accounts for 80% of Armour's sales, but the business has changed vastly since Philip Danforth Armour, with $2,000,000 earned from short selling barrels of pork in the Civil War, helped make Chicago the hog butcher for the world. Big-city slaughterhouses, geared to seasonal rushes and stretches of idleness, have been replaced by busy little "country" abattoirs closer to such cattle towns as West Point, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing...
...almost everything in an animal but its squeal. Most of its processes, from skinning to tinning, are now controlled by buttons, and new byproducts have led Armour in promising directions. From bone meal, it has moved strongly into all types of fertilizer. Tentative steps into Pharmaceuticals with pepsin from hog stomachs have led to a line of non-meat products that includes tranquilizers and cosmetics. Excursions into soapmaking to utilize fatty acids produced Dial soap, got Armour so interested in the grocery end that it now even makes pizza pie. Diversified Armour has been reorganized into seven divisions...