Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work-an achievement which was crowned when he became a member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers. In a sense, Barnes was still an intern when he came to Denver. But he saw almost instantly that he had to do more than prescribe massive medication-he also had to hog-tie his patient and shove his pills down the municipal gullet...
...Britain's attitude: ¶ French businessmen signed an $11.2 million contract with Peking at the Moscow Economic Conference. The deal: French metals and chemicals for Chinese silk, tea and sausage casings. ¶ West Germans in 1951 swapped $4 million worth of chemicals and machinery for Chinese ores and hog bristles...
...Lisbon. He died there three months later, yet to the last, he kept his spirit calm and cheerful and never lost what Thackeray called his ''manly relish of life." His last letter home bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese, and one of Stilton, it to be had good and mild . . . God bless you and yours...
Even Eternal Rome was beginning to wonder if it was eternal enough to outlast the filibuster in Italy's parliament. For 37 days the Communists had hog-tied the Chamber of Deputies with their desperate war against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill...
...fortnight ago in the "Hog Pen," Rio Grande's dilapidated gymnasium, Bevo ran wild against Ashland (Ky.) Junior College. During the closing five minutes of the game, Coach Oliver shouted instructions to his players, ordering them to foul their opponents deliberately so that Rio Grande could get the ball and "feed" Bevo. Bevo's final total: 116 points, an intercollegiate scoring record for one game...