Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eleven, the couple preached a social gospel that emphasized literacy and reform. It was a monumental labor complicated by floods, famines and warlords. Hersey provides the necessary historical overviews, but it is the abundance of detail that reawakens the sorrows of Old China. A short list of levies: "pig-rearing tax, firecracker tax, opium-smoking lamp tax, marrying off one's daughter tax, narcissus bulb tax, superstition tax, lower-class prostitute singing tax, and, terrible thought, night-soil tax, so that one couldn't even defecate without paying...
...month ever," says Rodd McLennan, an antiques dealer in Chelsea. "Mostly because Americans were buying furniture, always furniture: Regency, Biedermeier and English country house." Despite the price hikes, bargains can be found. One American woman talks gleefully of finding some Victorian pressed glass for almost nothing. "We are in pig heaven," she says. "This is play money buying treasures...
...allegedly told him, "Well, see if you can still reach him, because he is no longer speaking." The agent, Fonseca explained, had been brutally beaten, but was still alive. "Now you have done it!" Fonseca said he screamed. He < claimed that he slapped Caro Quintero and called him a pig...
...Houston awhile ago. They're still drinking, and they look 60 years old. That started me on the idea of bringing bad kids up here to the ranch this summer. Bad boys think cities is all there is. They don't know nothing about throwing a rock at a pig or pulling a fish out of the water. They read in a book, 'Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go!' But they don't know nothing about no river, no woods. They will when I get through with them...
Garn will serve mainly as the shuttle's human guinea pig. He will be subjected to tests designed to increase understanding of space motion sickness, an affliction suffered by about half the people who go into orbit. In one of the "gastric motility" experiments, stethoscopic microphones were strapped to the Senator's midsection to record his stomach noises at takeoff (NASA has yet to release a tape of the senatorial rumblings). Said Garn: "I am hopeful that I can fill in a few of the pieces of the puzzle in the medical department...