Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, Johnson came across a sow with half a dozen tiny piglets. He stopped and told photographers he would pose for pictures with a pig "if you can catch one." They started chasing the little pigs, and just as Country Boy Johnson had known all along, the angry sow charged the frightened photographers. While the city slickers fell all over themselves eluding the sow, Johnson guffawed exuberantly, honked his cow horn repeatedly and roared, "Whooeee...
Whooeee!" Finally, a pig was run to ground, and the President dutifully posed. During the tour, Reporter Means, her baby-blue eyes fastened on Johnson, cooed: "Mr. President...
...Berkeley. To justify his $10 million-a-year building program, Mrak has only to point at California's jammed cities and freeways. Davis appeals as an oasis-part farm, part suburbia-where everyone still knows everyone else. Cars are disdained in favor of bicycles, a 700-lb. pig snuffles outside the chancellor's window, new dormitories will house a comfortable 40 to 60 students, and the human-scale motto is "divide and congeal...
...alone on the stage for thirty-five minutes of almost unrelieved tedium. When Nancy arrives, at the end of the first act, the play livens up a bit. Where the others have just one mode of expression, she has three--she giggles, she sighs, and she snorts like a pig. This takes about fifteen minutes to pall completely. In the last act she loses a third of her effectiveness by not snorting any more...
...times each week, checking coded numbers on packages to see how they are selling, and moving older shipments to the front so that shoppers will take them first. If a product spends too much time on the shelf, Nabisco buys it back from the store and grinds it into pig feed. Among the recent failures that went to the hogs were Sesame Thins and Celery Thins. When one shareholder asked at the annual meeting why Sesame Thins had been dropped, Vice President Nile Cave answered: "This happens to be an item I personally like, but unhappily other people...