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Word: swine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word was coined for this kind of view: Titoism. Tito has once met Gomulka, who made "a very favorable impression. He is a worker, rather modest and reticent." Gomulka was less impressed by the vain Tito, privately referred to him as "a fat swine." When Stalin expelled Tito from the Russian family, Polish Communist leaders concurred in denouncing Tito, all except Gomulka, who said: "I don't know who is right or who is wrong, but we must end it all without publicity. We must find a compromise." He refused to attend a Cominform conference in Rumania where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...year-old student at a high school in Quitman, Ga., Farm Boy Wesley Patrick got a class project-the care of a gilt and a boar. He did so well that he won second prize at a local swine show. Much encouraged. Patrick asked his vocational agriculture teacher how he might get into full-time farming. Advised Teacher Drawdy Willis: "Develop and expand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Develop & Expand | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking, is for the evening hours and the short hours of the morning. Only bankers, utility moguls, insurance-company presidents, Methodist bishops, Catholic monsignori, managing editors of newspapers, and other such swine drink during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken Redivivus | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Road Hog. In Bielefeld, Germany, Motorist Georg Plaut was fined $50 for "using insulting language to fellow road users," after he rigged up an illuminated sign in his back window which flashed: SWINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Despite the political clamor for his resignation, Benson was still up to his old determination to tell people what he thought they should hear, whether they wanted to hear it or not. At a meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Apostles to the Farmers | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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