Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly moderate voice in the debate over Leonard Jeffries--the City College professor whose allegedly anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-gay statements have been making headlines for months. But when reports emerged that Jeffries threatened the life of a Crimson reporter, Eliot Morgan, the Post went whole hog with front-page stories and lengthy editorials. Here's a sampling from a staff editorial that appeared yesterday...
...Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught in bed "with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely did not embody the state's hog-stomping, hell-raising ethos was Buddy Roemer, with all his dour talk of austerity, responsibility and honor -- which goes a long way toward explaining why the voters just threw...
...good man, generous, hog-on-ice independent, cheerful in a wry sort of way, more than halfway decent. But his life is coming apart. His wife has left him, of course, though his dog, a surly pit-bull cross called "dog," small d, has stayed. He has done some penitentiary time, for cop fighting, and won't be too surprised to find himself jugged again. His pickup truck needs a new transmission. So does...
...Mardin, a bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon and I went to see the soldiers drill in the after noon it was a plesant day." For Dec. 12, of the same year: "We cleaned some of the ((hog)) guts for soap grease it sprinkled rain...
...gang of hoodlums bent on disrupting the flight, his feelings are those which one would expect from a "simple" man. "He hated crooks. Too greedy to live like regular people and too lazy to earn a buck, they cheated and stole from hardworking citizens and lived high on the hog...The electric chair was too good for them...