Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as Sophia. Her mother gave me 50 lire a month. Sophia drank at least 100 lire worth of milk. Madònna mia!" Justice & Poetry. Scicolone dropped in on the Villani family in Pozzuoli from time to time, and soon Romilda had another daughter, called Maria. "That pig was free to marry me," complains Sophia's mother, "but instead he dumped me and married another woman." Not much was heard from Scicolone until Sophia became a movie star and he tried unsuccessfully to take over the financial management of his daughter's affairs...
Professor Talalayev's spray is harmless to higher animals, including man. (Acting as his own guinea pig, he once swallowed a whole spoonful of the spray without ill effects.) The first tests have been so successful that the spray is being produced in large quantities by a factory in Moscow. There is also a possibility that the spray will control another leaf-eating caterpillar, which attacks deciduous trees. Another promising victim for Talalayev's biological warfare: the viciously biting black fly that makes life miserable each spring for man and beast in Siberia, Canada and the northern...
Tokyo's Yawata Iron & Steel Co. offered to purchase 5,000,000 tons of South African pig iron over a ten-year period. With such a huge deal in the works. South Africa could hardly afford to insult the visiting Japanese trade delegations that now would regularly visit the country. Without hesitation, Pretoria's Group Areas Board announced that all Japanese henceforth would be considered white, at least for purposes of residence, and Johannesburg's city fathers decided that "in view of the trade agreements" they would open the municipal swimming pools to Japanese guests...
...style. When she climbs up one side of a horse, she falls down the other. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. When she shingles a roof, she rolls off the edge, lands sitting on a pig, rides wildly off into the sunset...
...gifts to friends, usually expensive and conventional, often run wild and combine with a boisterous taste for practical jokes. To various people he has given a pig. a goat, a horse 600 Ibs. of manure, a dozen rabbits, a truckload of used furniture, a tiny monkey, and a basketful of shrunken heads. One recipient retaliated by sneaking into Gleason's bathroom and filling the tub with Jello...