Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the Prince and Princess of Windisch-Graetz, Lady Sassoon, the Earl of Hardwicke, Baroness Peggy de Gripenberg, four U.S. Senators and two people named Connie and Nonnie van Vlaanderen. By rough count, the crew added up to 850 sparkling personalities, all of whom last week jammed onto little Hog Island in Nassau harbor in the Bahamas...
...Washington's Birthday weekend, traditionally the busiest of the year, resort operators are celebrating the biggest year skiing has known since man first set out on barrel staves. Deep valleys and isolated mountainsides that only a few years ago had been as quiet as Coney Island on Ground Hog Day are now echoing with cries of "Track!" ''Attention!'' "Pista!" and "Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from swish chalets to high-wayless motels; ski tows...
Meanwhile Khrushchev, on a tour of Byelorussia, told hog farmers that he was "not here to read Pushkin's poems. You will read poems without me. I came to expose shortcomings." To dairy farmers, the peasant Premier proposed a taste test to decide between his recommendation for high protein cattle feed (sugar beets, peas) or simple hay, which some scientists favor. Khrushchev, who obviously can afford more liberalism toward cattle than toward comrades, suggested that the cows decide. Said he: "Well now, Burenushka [Bossy], what fodder do you vote...
...Dick Powell is about ready to retire as an actor altogether to devote himself to being a TV executive. Says he: "It's the vanity of the old ham. I look at myself in a TV Guide picture and say, 'Oh, those hog jowls.' I'm tired of trying to hold my stomach...
...been easy for Princeton to compete with two teams that hog the show "THE" game at the end of every football season. In football, unlike track or cross country, only two teams can play at a time. And when it's always Harvard and Yale in the Ivy League's extra-nostalgic season finale, wonders whether it's getting its full third of the Big Three prestige...