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...Sand Hog & Cowboy. Harris was a bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...
...Consent that Kennedy had been reading on the flight. United ran the picture in the October issue of the company's Mainliner magazine, sent a copy to Newsman Drury, who passed it on to Doubleday. The publishers tried a small ad in the Washington Post, then went whole hog with a $4,560 full-page ad in the Times. The effect was as expected. At stores around Manhattan, Advise and Consent sales showed a satisfying jump...
...election, the voters of the Fourth District gave the Republican candidate, John Kyi, 40, their approval by a solid 2,532 plurality over his Democratic rival, C. (for Charles) Edwin Gilmour, 41. The election fascinated politicos for two reasons: 1) the Fourth District, with a large population of corn-hog farmers and smaller but important groups of factory workers and merchants, is a good litmus for testing the trends of the Farm Belt; 2) only a year ago the district sent the first Democrat in its history to Congress. (The Democrat, Representative Steven Carter, died in office, thus last week...
...Hog prices sagged to a new low of $11 in Midwestern markets last week...
...Neanderthalers may have vanished because the wearing of clothes (or animal skins) shifted attention from muscular development to facial beauty. Finding no such refinements in members of their own race, Langner suggests, beauty-conscious Neanderthalers may have mated with other, more comely dawn men. This argument violates the Wart Hog Principle; one Neanderthaler probably looked just dandy to another...