Word: pigged
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...Pig," wrote the gentle essayist Charles Lamb, in phrases ardent as a lover's whisper, "is no less provocative of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices...
Last week Britons were considering another Summerskill attack on the British breakfast which might be less easily condoned. Oatmeal, she seemed to be saying, in flat contradiction of Charles Lamb and Dr. Johnson, was not only a substitute for the provocative pig, but an improvement...
Sarnoff still had to find the exact spot on a human neck where the current would hit the "motor point" of the phrenic nerve. For this, his Swiss-born wife Charlotte (who is also his laboratory assistant) served as a human guinea pig. When they found the spot, after hours of probing her neck with the electrode, her diaphragm contracted forcefully and she took a gusset-popping deep breath. Dr. Sarnoff had proved his device. Last year, he and his team of coworkers* called in a manufacturer to make technical improvements in the machine and turn out a pilot model...
Thrill-Murderer Nathan Leopold, 44, who has served 25 years of a 99-year sentence for the kidnap-killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks back in 1924 (Partner Richard Loeb was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936), got a reward for his volunteer guinea-pig service in wartime malaria experiments: commutation of his term to 85 years (making him eligible to apply for a parole in January...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...