Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need someone who is a hog and can go in there and score," Clifton says...
...high-ranking officials. (Ordinary citizens pay as much as $15 a day for more distant locations.) Arguing that Congressmen must be available on short notice for last-minute votes, Crane asserted that "Supreme Court Justices and ambassadors are traditionally driven to the airport" and that their aides should not hog the spaces, forcing Senators and Representatives to scrounge for other spots. Engen, who doubtless is studying the problem carefully, has yet to reply. Perhaps the next item on Crane's agenda: box seats at Redskins games...
...American Culture, many of the conservatives turned into angry militants during the cultural upheavals following World War I. The term Fundamentalist was coined in this period to identify a battler for orthodoxy. Presbyterian Evangelist Billy Sunday typified the new ornery style of combat. The liberal, Sunday fulminated, was a "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge- columned, jelly-spined, pussyfooting, four-flushing, charlotte-russed Christian." At the 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Tennessee schoolteacher was convicted of expounding evolutionary theory, Fundamentalists were ridiculed by the press and perceived by the public as antediluvian cranks. By the 1940s, conservatives who were embarrassed...
...energy belt, have forced many fans to cut back their entertainment spending. Only the biggest stars, notably Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, still pack large concert halls. Other musicians who were earning as much as $25,000 a night are now getting $8,500. All this has hog-tied Nashville's style. Says Tandy Rice, the chairman of the Top Billing booking agency: "A bunch of artists rushed out to buy big, fancy buses during the boom, and I think Nashville may become the biggest used-bus city in the nation...
...used to buy only bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...