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...pork barrel packed with projects dear to the folks back home-and offensive to Ike because it called for 67 new projects not in the Administration's budget. The bill originally rolled through the House on a thunderous voice vote, rumbled on through the Senate with a hogshead-sized bipartisan majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Victory for Veto | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...less in the glass than there was before, but now I was less steady, so I had to drink some more to keep it from spilling on the rug. So after awhile the glass became a pitcher, and the pitcher became a barrel, and the barrel became a hogshead, until finally I was tied in with a direct pipeline that was connected up to all the gin and tonic in the world. There I was, trying to drink up this whole enormous ocean of gin and tonic. It was a challenge...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

Tracking down hogshead-shaped ex-Teamster Tycoon Dave Beck, 64, at the $163,000 lair in Seattle built for him by his onetime subjects, Television and New York Post Quizician Mike Wallace found Big Dave waiting out an appeal of his Dec. 14 conviction for larceny. Beck was perplexed about his fat, foolish youngster Dave Jr., 38, convicted of filching $4,650 from a Teamster till. "I think I made some mistakes with young Dave," said Big Dave. "But on the other hand, Dave Beck Jr. has never given me one moment of trouble. Dave Beck Jr. never drank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Cash for the hogshead, cask and demijohn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...challengers of minor talents, tried, and they all came to pieces under Rocky's ham-handed macing. Last year Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore managed to put Rocky on the canvas for the second time in his pro career, but the champ righted himself as solidly as a hogshead of ale, and in the ninth round knocked Moore out. He was 31, and he still couldn't box, but there was still no one around to bother him. He had won all his 49 fights, 43 by knockouts. He took a vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rocky Retires | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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