Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today is Ground Hog...
Near Stara Pazova I came upon an old peasant leaning over a fence and talking to a hog. Through my interpreter, I asked him why he hadn't joined the local zadruga (cooperative). He stared at me for a long time. Then he reached down with a long-fingered hand and picked up a piece of his soil, black...
Meanwhile, CCC went ahead with plans to pile more food on its mountain of surpluses. Last week it decided that hog prices, which had tumbled, would continue falling, prepared to support them at $14.90 a 100 Ibs. at the farm...
This led to a rumor that Harry Truman wanted Bob Taft to win and thus remain a leading G.O.P. presidential candidate: the one candidate the President felt certain he could lick, hog-tied and blindfolded, in 1952. On a trip to Ohio, Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle piously denied the rumor. Last week Harry Truman predicted, in equally pious tones, that the Democrats would carry Ohio. Taft's probable opponent, one Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, an amiable political mediocrity who is state auditor, cried that he would massacre his foe. But the winter book money was on Taft...