Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving a car and killing someone like a lush. And it's cheaper than Scotch. Two or three people can get high on one joint [marijuana cigarette]. Of course, you can take bennies [Benzedrine] or dexies [Dexedrine], but they make me too nervous. I'm a hog. I don't just take one. I take three or four. You can get hooked on them...
...oxnapping promises rich yields in exercise and excitement. At the moment, Teal plans to release a set of dogs to scatter the musk-ox herd. Expert ropers will then try to lasso and tie up the adults, and after that a group of strong young men will run down, hog-tie and crate the eight lucky calves...
City Manager John B. Atkinson reports that at a recent auction of garbage (it is sold for hog food), a gentleman bid an amount much higher than any of his competitors. When questioned about his reasons, he replied that the Harvard garbage when fed to the hogs was much more nutritious than any other...
...furnishings store in Brooklyn. Fame touched him when, riding a subway, he spotted Bank Robber Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the nation's most wanted criminal, on an opposite seat. Schuster's tip led police to capture Willie (TIME, March 3). Then, when the cops tried to hog the credit, he hired a lawyer to establish his claim to a rumored reward...
...these, of course, are not millionaires at all, but high-salaried executives who live for a day, like gaudy moths, in the bright light of the tax collector's investigators. Surtaxes consume their substance. They have no more chance of getting rich by saving than a Nebraska hog farmer of Bryan's day had of eating oysters with Ward McAllister...