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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...
...take such an uncharitable view of their own ordeal. Actually, they have merely carried into joblessness, and applied to themselves, the attitudes inculcated in them by workaday society. The American view of joblessness has never been overly sympathetic. Pioneer America flaunted its punitive sentiment in a vulgar aphorism: "Root, hog, or die!" While that position has been softened a bit (witness unemployment benefits that have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary, the nation has not relinquished its basic...
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...
...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...