Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and told him succinctly: "The Government is no good for farmers." Said Howard later: "I didn't sass him or nothin'. I told him the Government should try to get out of the farming picture in ten or 15 years-slowly. The hog market has no price supports and they're doing fine, but the corn market has, and is messed up." A few minutes later, the visitor met President Jack Kennedy. "Howard, what do you think about the farm situation?" asked Jack. Howard made the same pitch -the Government ought...
...high on the hog, with my first piece of luggage and two coats," Leontyne left Laurel for the North. Impressed by her voice, an Army chaplain from nearby Camp Shelby had helped her win a scholarship to Wilberforce University, a mostly Negro school in Ohio. On her entrance application she wrote, under Plans for the Future: "I'm worried about the future because I want so much to be a success...
Question: What do you do if the kinfolk show up only at hog-killing time, licking their chops for pork? Answer: Keep the execution secret. Question: What do you do when your husband's whittle shavings are always flying into the piecrust? Answer: Get him a "whittling room...
...soon as the outcome was obvious, the floor took on the appearance of a JV game. Brandeis, because it has less than 750 men, is allowed to use freshmen, and coach Rudy Finderson went whole hog, tossing four of them into the fray for the final five minutes...
...Manhattan. Connecticut Democrat Tom Dodd issued his own statement of principle: he was not about to go "whole hog'' on the Democratic platform, "merely because it was adopted by our party convention . . . Any attempt of a party convention to dictate to a President or a Congress concerning constitutional responsibilities cannot be countenanced...