Word: hogs
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...impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy Lingren of Beason, whose winning cry was "Kenneeeee, the sows are in heat, and I can't get the boar out of the mudhole...
...Shaoqi had realized the enormity of the miscalculation and set about correcting it. At a tense party plenum that Mao did not attend (so that Liu, Deng and others could gainleader ship experience prior to the Chairman's death), they announced measures reinstating private farming plots, peripheral industries like hog raising and more extensive free markets. In industry, managers and technicians were to take over from party bureaucrats. On a limited scale these programs foreshadowed Deng's second revolution. Mao was furious when he learned of the change in direction, demanding coldly, "Which emperor decided this...
...history. Wine is the fruit of man, but it is connected to the terroir. It is important to maintain that sense of differentiation." It's not that the best French Burgundies and California Cabernets are losing their terroir. Instead the critics are crying foul over mass-produced wines that hog the grocery-store shelves. A new documentary has poured gasoline on the debate: Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovino is the wine world's Fahrenheit 9/11, an indictment of big corporate wineries that Nossiter claims are killing wine's soul. To such critics, Gallo's international brands are as scary as McDonald...
...once and end his life. But one of his cellmates ratted him out, and the MPs introduced him to the IRF. The IRF process was a little more ad hoc then: it meant receiving a good old-fashioned a__ whipping, after which the lucky detainee would be hog-tied--made to kneel with his hands behind his back and the shackles on his hands and feet locked together--for four hours...
...Chinese oatmeal for breakfast. He cooked on a hot plate and slept in the hall, while the two couples had one small bedroom each. But it worked great. I loved the place. Easterners had a time getting used to all this primitive discomfort, but I was in hog heaven. It was also a completely democratic society. Oppie saw to that--big shots and flunkies like me all living together. Every week we had a colloquium in one of our two movie theaters, where we would be told what everyone was doing. Once in a while some military guy would come...