Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip through Iowa had Ike's staff forcibly restraining heady visions of victory. Crowds unequaled since Franklin Roosevelt's greatest days turned out at every step from Davenport to Des Moines. As the train passed down through the corn-hog country the farmers left their fields to wave and crane for a sight of the candidate. In Iowa City a crowd of 5,000 (out of a population of 27,000) got caught in a chilly rain but stuck out the discomfort until Ike had finished his talk...
...visitors saw a sight unique in Canadian papermaking. The wood supply clanking up the jackladder to be milled into paper was not the customary heavy, costly pine, fir and spruce; it was scraps of branches and tree tops and scrubby hemlock, waste wood that loggers call "slash" or "hog." Pounded by the mill's crushing stones, the scrap was being processed into newsprint as marketable as any produced from the most expensive pulpwood...
...striking feature in common: intense conservatism. The Democrats' eyes were turned back to 1932. A more popular character even than F.D.R. in Democratic Convention oratory was the sheriff foreclosing the old mortgage. The party mascot no longer seemed to be the donkey, but the 2?-a-lb. hog. The almost unanimous party line was contained in the phrase "20 years ago." The Democrats' hope is to stimulate the fear that the Republicans would (in the words of the official campaign song) "take it away." At times it seemed as if the Democrats had nothing to cheer but fear...
Jane Barkley kept a sharp eye on the Veep's health, shorted him on his favorite hog jowl & turnip greens, and talked him into more salads, fruit and a slendering waistline. He still carries his railsplitter's shoulders as upright as a general, still has all his own teeth. Only his eyes are a problem: he can barely see without his thick-lensed glasses. Recently he came out of a successful operation for cataract and cracked to Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence: "You know I can see through a brick wall. The girls had better start wearing...
...Whole Man. In the Rockport (Ind.) Democrat, Jesse L. Garrett, 49, offered $28,000 for a wife, described himself as "not bad to look at, love any kind of fun, and am at home in a hog pen or in a mansion's drawing room...