Word: swine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh...
...government pork sales were discontinued, but the administration of Socialist Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion insisted that there was nothing wrong with selling pork on the free market. With a go-ahead sign like that, the owners of Israel's 30-odd pig farms began to sell their swine. Restaurant customers soon found their drab diet of cod fillets varied by the introduction of pork cutlets at $2.80 a portion, and housewives were able to purchase some nice cuts...
...swine, And 'Sing Noel!' cries every lusty...
...today." His speeches were few but brash, sarcastic and courageous. One day in May 1932, after Goebbels had attacked the German Socialists on the Reichstag floor, Deputy Schumacher rose in fury to reply. "The whole National Socialist movement," he cried, "is only a lasting appeal to the inner swine-dog in man . . . For the first time in German political history, someone has succeeded in absolutely mobilizing German stupidity...
...fell into the ministry of a fanatical Orthodox priest, Father Konstantinovsky who called him a "swine," and plied the bellows to Gogol's visions of hell fire. Poor Gogol was always chilly now, a twisted little man with a long fox nose, big close-set eyes, a loose little mouth full of bad teeth. For two years before his death, he was often without the power of connected thought. One day he burned most of the manuscript of Part II of Dead Souls. Then he refused to eat. On March 4, 1852, at the age of 43, he died...