Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while she strokes Flash the basset hound and waits for the Confederate boys to boot the Yankees out of Atlanta. There is still hope for redemption, even for those prejudiced few who've let their musical image of the banjo be perverted by Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss Hog...
Class Differences. Whitman wrote, "I see an aristocrat/ I see a smoucher grabbing the good dishes exclusively to himself and grinning at the starvation of others as if it were funny,/ I gaze on the greedy hog." By the time of the Civil War, the poorest half of Americans owned just 1% of all assets...
Most Americans never hear about the issues that will make a difference in their lives. Instead, events that receive sensationalist treatment worthy of the muckrakers of the Gilded Age--such as the O.J. Simpson trial and Susan Smith's alleged murders of her children--hog the headlines. These are mere curiosities that have no effect on average citizens...
...Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is something of a runaway hog itself, a 10,000-acre comic novel set in what might almost be called Animal Farm State...
...refrigerators and an inventor who, after a "brain attack," only moos. Secretaries sell Amway products by telephone, and computer nerds get million-dollar grants to work on "calf-free lactation." One whole chapter is given over to the inner thoughts and agonies of Earl Butz, a "very fastidious hog" who is described quite as sympathetically as the two-legged creatures around him: "At bottom, he was still the hog he had always been, the hog he was bound to be, and he was bound to eat. That was his genius and his burden...