Word: hogged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...worst part of that permanent Washington is mere slick K Street venality - unelected money catering a hog's buffet. The best of the tenured Washingtonians, represented by Kay Graham at the top of her game, joined good human instincts with intelligent principle, and a certain thoughtful unfoolability about people (Richard Nixon, for example...
...browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower and Wild Bleeding Heart, as Vipers Bugloss and Crazyweed, as Hog Peanut, Corn Cockle, Tansy leaf Aster, Showy Orchis, Death Camas, and that damned elusive Scarlet Pimpernel...
Drawing from four farm towns, the CAL and Dows school districts, in a chicken-and hog-farming area about 90 miles north of Des Moines, are excelling despite declining enrollment. They have successfully negotiated the kind of consolidation that often tears schools and communities apart. And they serve as models for other rural districts with shrinking populations, especially in the Great Plains states...
Sixteen-year-old Brooks Douglass was on the floor, shot in the back, hog-tied and bound to his gagged parents, who were choking on their own blood. Two men, posing as stranded motorists, had come to their farmhouse in Okarche, Okla., asking to use the phone. Once inside, the armed men tied up Brooks and his parents, took turns trying to rape his 12-year-old sister, Leslie, then shot all four of them. Brooks helped free Leslie, who ran for a kitchen knife, while he gnawed at the ropes confining his mom and dad. By the time...
...That's why Heinecke, 52, astride a Harley Davidson FX, is leading a squadron of 700 motorcycle delivery boys mounted on Hondas and Yamahas through Bangkok's Siam Square shopping district to publicize the launch of his new Pizza Company chain. But as he revs the engine on his hog, even this veteran of numerous thick-crust and double-cheese campaigns has his doubts: "What if we bomb...