Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recession-plagued Michigan some people are living high off the hog, not to mention the cow, the sheep and even the horse. As food prices rise and unemployment lines grow longer, rustlers have declared open season on livestock. Complains State Representative Richard Fitzpatrick, whose home turf in south-central Michigan has been hard hit: "People just rent themselves a UHaul, find a farm at night, open a fence...
...local auctions. But there is evidence that an increasing number of rustlers are hungry householders who drive out from cities to poach meat for the family freezer. "In many cases, the animals are butchered right in the field," says Ron Gaskill of the Michigan Farm Bureau. "They kill a hog and just cut off the hindquarters. What they want is meat...
Marjabelle, who runs her empire from her lawyer-husband's home town of Kewanee, Ill. ("Hog Capital of the World"), also works with some 60 corporations to impart the social graces to bumptious executives. For too many, nose-to-the-grindstone careers have left little time for the velvet touch. In addition, Stewart has written eleven books, three of them with Ann Buchwald, wife of Columnist Art, which sport such jaunty titles as Looking Pretty, Feeling Fine and Stand Up, Shake Hands...
Exactly what made the clans so extravagantly unfriendly is open to conjecture. Maybe Randolph McCoy was sore at a Hatfield for stealing a razorback hog. Maybe he was angry at his daughter Rose Anne, pregnant by Johnse Hatfield after a frolic in 1880, for moving, unmarried, into the Hatfield compound. Or maybe the cause was the packs of Hatfields who crossed the Tug Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison...
...lives on. Family Feud is a TV game show, which pits one family against another. Two years ago, in a brain storm of a California kind, the producers brought Hatfields and McCoys, ten of each, out to Hollywood. The contestants were dressed in period costumes, and a rented scrub hog was led into the studio so the quasi-historical argument could be staged. "Buddy, we all had them old-timey guns," says Dutch. "Hey, I'd have given them $200 for the one I had." The McCoys won three out of five. For a finale, the Hatfields...