Word: pigged
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...where your land begins," explained Conti. Amerigo's jaw dropped. "But this garden?" he wondered. Conti answered: "It's included. Your land goes to the ditch down there. Takes in half that oak tree." Amerigo exclaimed: "The acorns from that tree will be enough to keep a pig. We will have sausage at home...
...ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel and the soul of a pig, she falls hard...
...mediator, Ching puffs imperturbably on his pipe as he listens, grunts understandingly, grins often, gets a relaxed atmosphere with homely saws. He is good at it. But is he the tough man for the thankless job of wage stabilizer? "I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig," Ching likes to say. "You get dirty and besides the pig likes it." When the time comes to crack down hard on employers or workers, the job may need a man who doesn't mind getting dirty...
...radiation-caused cancers attacked a vital organ, though parts of Dr. Brown's fingers had to be amputated, and finally he lost an eye. He wrote little of his suffering, though he noted: "I have probably received in divided doses, as a sort of voluntary guinea pig in a hospital laboratory, the same deleterious effects I might have sustained in one massive explosive emanation, had I been an experimental Bikini goat...
...Walking Colonial Institute." The. road to greatness has been a steep one for the greying, 46-year-old man whose grandmother was born in slavery. Orphaned at 14, he worked during his high-school years first as a houseboy, then as a "pig boy," moving type metal in the composing rooms of the Los Angeles Times. When his grandmother, with whom he lived, became worried by ominous tales of "printer's consumption," Bunche left the Times for a job laying carpets...