Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the sheep heard that the Council of Owls was involved in another meadow in a far off land called Aparkside, where the white sheep lived high off the hog (excuse the metaphor) by making the black sheep work really hard for them. And the white sheep wouldn't let the black sheep form a flock, and made them eat bad apples that caused many of the little lambs to die before they grew up. The Vard Council of Owls had a deal with the Aparkside rulers, in which Aparkside rulers like the John the Horsester gave Vard money...
...Cabin Creek: a three-bedroom house rents for no more than $185 a month. But wildcat strikes are frequent-District 7 walked out for ten weeks last summer over a reduction in health benefits-and miners generally save little of their earnings. "Sometimes you're high on the hog, and sometimes you ain't got nothing," says Jerold Hamrick...
...Mark Zanger, who wrote the Real Paper article, pointed out, there wouldn't be any neediest cases at all if the greediest cases didn't hog everything. So the Realp piece wasn't really cynical--just showing the other side of the story...
Angel dust is the most common name. It is also known as goon, busy bee, crystal, hog, elephant tranquilizer and superjoint. By any name, phencyclidine (PCP) is the most dangerous drug to hit the streets since LSD became widely available a decade ago. Its use is growing rapidly; a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) study found that nearly a third of the young patients reporting to drug-treatment centers have tried PCP and one-fifth used it regularly. Angel dust has been linked to hundreds of murders, suicides and accidental deaths-214 last year in the Detroit area alone...
...slim blonde farm wife named Jennifer Patri, 32, is to go on trial Dec. 6 for the first-degree murder of her hard-drinking husband, Robert. To most neighbors, Mrs. Patri seemed happily active. She taught Lutheran Sunday school, presided over a local P.T.A. and supervised a busy hog farm. The reality of her private life was, however, grim. Her husband, an auto-body repairman she married at 18, continually slapped her around and subjected her to agonizing sexual abuse. Says Mrs. Patri's attorney, Alan Eisenberg: "He apparently dreamed up his own sexual circus...