Word: pigged
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...amateur historian; one does not find insights into air strikes or bombing pauses. What she does convey eloquently are the fears and anxieties of a fiercely devoted wife, especially during the last two bleak years. In 1967 the Johnsons entered what she calls "the Valley of the Black Pig."*She was frankly alarmed by demonstrators: "Through every pore, you sense a sort of animal passion . . . What if I had suddenly broken into a run?" What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance-shoulders square, head high, smile in place...
...image stems from an ancient Irish legend which predicted that the peasants would one day overcome their oppressive enemies in a climactic battle in a mysterious Valley of the Black Pig. W.B. Yeats used the phrase for the title of a poem...
...threats were circulated earlier this week in a two-page mimeographed pamphlet which called Barry a "dirty clothed fascist pig...
...said, "I hope that after this is over some of you will go to a gun store and buy some M14s or visit your local pig department and get some equipment there. Then you will be ready to go and free Bobby and Erika...
...normal eight-year-old, he's just an exceptionally good author. But to someone older, who has never experienced the joy of Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little, he is, as a friend of mine said recently, "very weird." True, spiders don't usually weave slogans such as "Some Pig" into their webs to save pigs from being slaughtered; and human parents don't usually give birth to a son who looks exactly like a mouse. But none of that matters, because they're all very real, endearing characters with real problems-of survival or identity or whatever. So when...