Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were painting Havana's threadbare buildings, draping banners, and hanging enormous murals depicting Brobdingnagian revolutionaries. The festivities began with a New Year's blast in the Plaza de la Revolución, where 50,000 Cubans and guests paid $3 a head for a spread of roast pig and chicken, and toasted the year with hundreds of gallons of Spanish wine...
...moment, the Reds are demanding nothing more than an end to the American presence and a move toward "neutralism." But as Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman recently remarked to visiting U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield: "Thailand does not want to become another guinea pig in a laboratory to use as a test of Communist good faith." In that, the Thais can be assured of American concurrence...
...Duck announced that the sub had done even better than that-it had been built and launched in Baltimore. The other French papers excitedly picked up the story. Exulted the Duck: "The stupidity of these great papers is so enormous that they fell upon this fable like a pig on a truffle...
...Northern Ireland does not have elections very often, and it is probably just as well. Last time around, Belfast officials considered calling out the British army before police in armored cars finally quelled 3,000 rioters, who were tossing lumps of pig iron and Molotov cocktails. But last week, as the country went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, the atmosphere was remarkably subdued...
...California Art Collector Simon was interested. Last summer Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard F. Brown, who has counseled Simon in many of his purchases, went to Liechtenstein to examine the prince's Leonardo in the sunlight of the palace courtyard. Simon is no collector to buy a pig in a poke. Before bidding $2,234,400 for Rembrandt's Titus last March, he had the painting gone over by experts; in fact, earlier, when Titus was still privately owned, he refused to buy it because his advisers were not permitted to examine it thoroughly...