Word: porker
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...Even the porker, grunting pig latin, lives in a pig style. Why not the carnivorous snail...
...Savannah River Valley, there was not a pine bark fish stew or a fat porker barbecue. Work had come to a standstill and people gathered in small hushed groups to discuss the stunning news: their homes, farms and small towns would be wiped out to make way for the Government's $260 million hydrogen-bomb project...
...right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...
...early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally molded today's trim, streamlined 225-lb. porker, with apartment-size hams...
...newspapers that signed up for Milton Caniff's new comic strip were buying a pig in a poke. But publishers, who don't buy comics for the fun of it, were sure that it would be a prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...