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...laden Bermuda grass, tied his shoe laces, then swung off in easy, economical strides toward the neat, white smokehouse. There, ducking under three Tennessee hams and some sides of smoked fatback, he filled a five-gallon grease bucket with wheat shorts, crimped oats and water to make a slop for the four Duroc sows that were nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest-high tombstone of his great-grandfather...
Obit. In Dallas, the Dead Letter Department opened a misaddressed envelope, found inside a poignantly-worded message: "We're all well here-excepting Pa, and he caught the flu and died; but that's all right, because all he ever done was slop the hogs, anyhow...
...Cochran himself couldn't make the slop on this series, he was always able to drive the play wide and set it up for the Crimson secondary. Once only an offensive end Cochran is another example of the advantages of one platoon football...
...State Hospital, an ancient, overcrowded firetrap within sight of the Statehouse, they found the men's infirmary as bad as any storied bedlam. The 55 patients were nearly all incontinent, and spent day and night lying naked on their beds in their own excrement. "Meals" consisted of cold slop, eaten with a spoon. None ever left the "infirmary" except to go to the morgue...
Sign Language. In Cincinnati, Leroy Huntley accused his wife at a divorce hearing of placing gummed stickers about the house for his benefit: BE SURE TO PUT DIRTY HANDS ON THE WALLPAPER ... BE SURE TO SLOP UP THE MIRROR ... BE SURE TO MESS THIS UP ... MIGHT AS WELL PUT THE GARBAGE IN THE LIVING ROOM...