Word: pigged
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...million (see chart). Demographers have used an unattractive but vivid metaphor to describe the long-term effects of a baby boom. They compare the assimilation into society of the 64 million postwar babies, the largest cohort in U.S. history, to the process by which a python digests a pig...
...pig moves along the snake's digestive tract, it makes a bulge, just as the boom babies are causing a traveling bulge in the economy and social life of the country. Some social scientists, for example, attribute the student riots and other disruptions of the late '60s to the sheer numbers of adolescents who abruptly appeared on the scene...
...role models"--possible links to the future, possible clues to the lot of women in today's world, outside the University's walls. It means that women in each of the Houses have felt compelled to form women's tables, however undirected, in the face of Male Chauvinist Pig counter-dinners. And if it doesn't mean that the Radcliffe Union of Students has managed to unify women undergraduates, it does mean that the Radcliffe administration is beginning to re-establish itself as a presence in the lives of the students it admits...
...Nicholson will often come back from work with a few pals in tow, a group that might include Mike Nichols (whom Nicholson calls "Big Nick"), Candice Bergen ("Bug"), Art Garfunkel ("Art the Garf) or Warren Beatty ("Master B"). The house itself is raffish and eclectic, featuring a collection of pig effigies: stuffed toy pigs, carved wooden pigs, a pig matchholder and a needle point showing two pigs coupling. "When pigs became the symbol of evil," Nicholson explains, "I adopted them...
Much of the tape was a eulogy for the slain, whom she described as "six beautiful sisters and brothers" whose memories had been distorted by the "fascist pig" media...