Word: hogshead
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...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
Soon after the Yale game, the CRIMSON will have several hogshead of beer and soda pop on hand for a freshmen, sophomores and juniors who feel the urge to become candidates...
...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...
Armour is conducting its own research in the hope of increasing the supply, said Mote. If the complex structure of the ACTH molecule can be determined, he hopes to be able to stop making it in minute quantities from hogs' heads, and start to synthesize it by the hogshead. Until then, the millions of sarthritics and the countless sufferers from gout and a dozen other diseases must live in hope...
...Watertown, N.Y. historian entered the controversy with a disquieting story of what had happened to Zeb Pike's body. Legend had it that when Pike was killed in the capture of York (now Toronto) by his forces, his body was shipped back to Sackets Harbor in a hogshead of whiskey.* In 1909, the cemetery in which he was buried was moved to another section of the town. Of 130 corpses, only four-not including Zeb Pike's-were positively identified. The historian recalled that among the bodies moved was one apparently submerged in alcohol in a metal casket...