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...page, is "fond of soft, fattening foods-chipped beef, creamed chicken, beef stroganoff, lamb hash, stuffed peppers. He loves tapioca pudding. . . A homemade pie makes Mr. Johnson swallow with anticipation." When he is angry or irritated, "his mouth forms a huge 'O' and he sounds like a hog caller." He makes telephone calls while he dresses, so that he might be talking about the threat of thermonuclear war "with one leg thrust into the trousers." When he kisses Lady Bird, "he enfolds her in his arms and says goodnight as he says everything else, with authority...
...nonstrikers did not reach the market. Bullets were fired into tank trucks to drain their cargo; others were balked by masked men, who sometimes destroyed the trucks along with their loads. Dynamite exploded in front of two houses in Michigan, a barn was burned in Southern Ohio, a hog house and 40 pigs went up in flames in Wisconsin. All milk going into Detroit was held up while health officials checked out a report-untrue, as it turned out-that it was laced with arsenic. Some truckloads were diluted with kerosene; in Marshall County, Tenn., at least one was spoiled...
...wild nowhere land, with a hero never emasculated by romance, a vision of death, or whole-hog brutality, it doesn't seem incredible. In fact, it's rather nice...
Chicago grew rich as the Midwest's hog butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site...
...come and go"' that is, the timbers shrink in the dry winter air, expand when put back in the water. As a result, hulls can warp, fittings are sometimes sheared. Secondly, the cradle in which a boat rests may not fit properly and thet boat will tend to "hog," that is, sag at both bow and stem...