Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graze like hunter-gatherers at mealtime, with full carry-out privileges (Chinese, pizza) and access to expense-account restaurants that had their parents' credit card on file. I was so depressed by the thought of kids' eating out of a carton, like Woody Allen, or high off the hog, like a porky lobbyist, that I insisted that mine eat at home, even when I was heating up Stouffer...
...sworn in across town as the new superintendent of police. With the city's reputation in free fall, Pennington moved quickly to replace the department's discredited internal-affairs division with a more independent public-integrity division and to ban controversial restraining tactics such as choke holds and hog-tying...
...should never have looked at its teeth. For the past 15 minutes, this 6-ft. tiger shark has been hog-tied alongside our small flat-bottomed motorboat, tossing in choppy seas two miles off Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu. Carl Meyer, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, has been busy the whole time--slipping a noose around the powerful tail, flipping the shark on its back to put it into a stupor, measuring it this way and that, then shouting the numbers to his colleagues on the larger boat that bobs in the waves nearby...
...hold the middle ground. Some of my colleagues say white editors chastised them for insisting that Webb's series, while overblown, raised disturbing questions that needed investigation. At the same time, some African Americans pressured black reporters to forget their qualms and swallow the series whole hog. A lot of us were vilified on black talk-radio shows for arguing that the wild speculations of conspiracy theorists like Dick Gregory deserve no more credence than the CIA's self-serving denials...
...suppose that answer also covers pancetta, scrapple and barbecued hog shoulder," I said...