Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once in a long time she gets stymied. Her suckling-pig program is a famous example. First she explained the extraordinary preparations she had gone through: cleaning its ears and nostrils, shaving its snout, even brushing its teeth. Each step, using three pigs with two in reserve, went smoothly. Then came the time to carve. Using an electric knife-"It certainly sounds like a dentist, doesn't it?"-all went well until she reached the rlbs. They would not yield. She attacked with a huge chef's knife. Still no luck. Finally she put down the knife, rested...
Died. Henry Krajewski, 54, the Secaucus, N.J., pig farmer who wanted to be President, in 1949 formed his own Poor Man's Party and got himself on the New Jersey ballot in 1952, 1956 and 1960, campaigning with a wiggling porker under his arm and the slogan "No piggy deals in Washington," also ran for other offices in other years, never polling many votes, but once, in 1954, being credited with taking enough ballots (his vote: 35,241) away from the Democrats to help give Republican Clifford Case his first U.S. Senate victory; of a heart attack; in Secaucus...
...gardens overlooking the Pasig River, Johnson sat with a bright pink bandanna around his neck and a wreath of white sampaguitas-the Philippines' national flower-on his head, sampling suckling pig, barbecued crab claws, pickled papaya and coconut punch laced with rum. When the band struck up Hello, Dolly!, the President loped out onto the marble floor with Imelda while guests scrambled atop chairs and tables for a better view. Alone, the couple danced through one chorus, Lyndon lumbering around in his Texas two-step, Imelda crooning the words to him. Still alone, they danced to a second chorus...
...Paris, but dry white wine with crème de cassis is an old Burgundian pick-me-up known as rinse cochon, pig rinse. As Mayor of Dijon the good Canon Kir must know the drink's real name. I wonder if he finds it flattering...
...Between. The game of football has never been quite the same since-a good thing, too, because it might otherwise not even exist today. Old-fashioned "pig pile" football was a brutal way to spend an afternoon: the casualty toll for the 1905 season alone was 18 deaths and 149 serious injuries, and President Theodore Roosevelt talked about abolishing the sport. The forward pass opened up the game and made it safer. Massed defenses, designed only to stop a crunching ground attack, swiftly became obsolete as more and more teams included the pass among the weapons in their arsenals. Still...