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Word: pork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seal-flipper pie, smoked caplin (a smeltlike fish), fried cod tongues, and gamy saltwater bird. For dessert, there are blueberries, tart partridge berries, and amber-hued bakeapple berries, topped with thick cream. Strictly for strong stomachs is the Sunday morning breakfast of fish and brewis (boiled hardtack) with pork cracklings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Tourist Outpost | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Pork in Perkins Cove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Senator Paul Douglas is justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Washington, which was warm but not yet sizzling, some congressional tempers sizzled last week like pork fat dropped in a skillet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Christians just ain't. It says in the Bible to love thy brethren but people don't practice what the Bible preaches ... I been studying the Koran myself. That's the Islam Bible, you know. Once I get converted, I can't drink, or eat pork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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