Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grown-up teaching and research. In "schizoid" Midwest fashion, as Orientalist John A. Wilson put it not long ago, Chicagoans "pound on our chests and proclaim fiercely that we are the corn belt or the pivotal center of the country or the home of American nationalism or the 'hog butcher of the world.' Yet secretly we long to out-Harvard Harvard, to out-Oxford Oxford, and to out-Sorbonne the Sorbonne as a citadel of pure intellectuality...
...medieval days any dog, hog, horse, donkey, mouse, rat, beetle or swarm of flies charged with a crime could get a fair trial-complete with sharp-tongued defense attorney and a day before the bench. When a sow was hanged for devouring its young, a dog executed for biting children, or a rat pack or fly swarm ordered exterminated, there was no question about it: the whole legal system of the 15th century was in there pitching...
Seventy-five percent of all German boys and girls leave school at 14. but nearly all the boys and about half the girls become apprentices. Apprenticeships are offered in 124 trades, ranging from hog raising to organ building, and generally take three years to complete. After passing stiff exams, an apprentice becomes a journeyman -a stage that in medieval times meant that he journeyed about the country to find jobs. Only carpentry retains that ancient practice; on Germany's back roads, the wandering carpenter, dressed in traditional bell-bottom trousers and a widebrimmed felt hat, can still be seen...
Though Sandburg's "hog butcher for the world'' is no more (many of the slaughterhouses have moved out), Chicago remains a mercantile and industrial center for the nation. Its wholesale and retail trade runs better than $33 billion a year. The city handles more freight cars daily-26,000-than New York and St. Louis combined, boasts terminals for 20 rail lines. Its motor arteries are clogged by 800,000 truck trips daily. Its McCormick Place is the nation's biggest convention hall, plays host to organizations that spend more than $200 million a year...
...yearly consideration of "a fat wether, a fat hog, or 40 shillings in money," the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in its assembly of 1633 granted to Samuel Maverick a plot of land which had come to be known as Noddle's Island...