Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MEAT PRICES WILL DROP this winter. Record slaughters and recent drops in wholesale hog prices have cut the retail price of pork chops by 6%, loin roast by 10%, bacon 2%, ham 5%, with more reductions in prospect straight through until next March. Beef prices, which have been rising, will follow the trend, are expected to start dropping next month...
...McLoughlin Jr., a political science professor at Brown University and Billy Sunday's first full-dress biographer, believes that most of the "converts" were already pious members of the rural middle class, giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord on their knees and publicly confess their sins. They accepted the evangelist's big, red-blooded handshake and sometimes they signed...
...week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
Even brighter, there is always Roy Campanella, too good a catcher to let any pitching staff look bad. Dodger pitchers never know how sharp they are until Campy starts calling their shots. Any one of them will have to be hog-wild to throw a ball past him back of the plate. At bat he has a sharp eye, seldom goes after bad pitches. When he gets on base he is perfectly capable of churning his chubby legs fast enough to steal...
Twenty-one-gun salute-the hog...