Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hated your name? Apparently some people have. A recently published study by researchers at the University of California in San Diego has suggested that people with "cooler" initials--such as ACE, JOY, WOW or GOD--might actually live longer than people with more negative ones, like BUM, UGH, ILL, PIG, ASS or DED. The study looked at five million California death certificates and singled out 3,487 men (whose names are less likely to change over a lifetime). The study included 2,287 men with decidedly negative monograms and 1,200 WINners and VIP-types...
According to Nicholas Christenfeld, one of the researchers quoted in a story by The Associated Press, there may be "some psychological factor that can exert its impact cumulatively over the years...At every stage it's a little tiny depressant to be called PIG, or a little tiny boost to your esteem to be called...
...from her weather-worn mobile home on a dirt road northwest of Jonesboro. Next door is Brand Custom Hauling--the company that employs Gretchen's third husband, Terry Woodard, as a heavy-equipment operator. In the house a bobtailed cat prowls the kitchen counter while Trigger, the pet guinea pig, snoozes in its cage. "The hardest thing for me is that this was the happiest any of us had ever been," says Woodard. On the morning of the shooting, Mitch had sat at her circular kitchen table, slumped in her spindle-back chair, chuckling with his stepfather over...
...were welcomed into Walker Hall by the sound of slack key music strumming in the background. Tropical flowers adorned the walls, people in bright aloha shirts darted around excitedly, and the familiar smell of kalua pig wafted through the room. Kalua pig, the centerpiece of every luau, is fire-roasted on red-hot stones in an underground oven called an imu. I assume that the organizers couldn't pull off the red-hot stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with...
...might find yourself in the company of apotbellied pig named "Lolita" or get called by ahysterical artist whose rottweiler got into hispurple paint," Gordan says. "As far as I'mconcerned veterinary medicine will take you veryinteresting places."CrimsonMatthew P. MillerTABITHA A. SHANIES `98 who will attendCornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, plans tobe a "wildlife or exotic animals"veterinarian...