Word: trough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats, on the other hand, were split by a bitter primary battle. Johnson last August defeated Faubus' personal choice for a successor, and in repeated attacks on the Faubus machine vowed to "slap the hogs away from the trough." In trouble, Johnson has not only shown himself eager to shake hands with Negroes, but has also gone hat in hand to seek Faubus' blessing. Faubus, in turn, is urging his supporters to "come to the lick log" (Arkansas argot meaning swallow your pride and back Johnson). Nonetheless, with a private poll showing Rockefeller ahead with 52% to Johnson...
...Because he loved animals so, we put a watering trough in front of his grave," said Rhena Schweitzer Eclcert, 47. "A sheep lambed on his grave, and we think he would have liked that." Whether the late Albert Schweitzer would like what his daughter has been trying to do with his notoriously primitive hospital at Lambaréné since the doctor died last September is another matter. "We have finished the electrification of the wards," she reported, on a rare trip to New York, adding that a refuse-disposal system has replaced the garbage barrels that the goats used...
...chairman, Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, is all for the increase-though not long ago he was a bitter critic of the program, complaining that big-city mayors were turning it into "giant fiestas of political patronage" and, mixing metaphors, that they were feeding "political hacks at the trough...
...Crimson may have enough trouble getting itself in shape, disregarding Penn's always strong teams. Harvard is floundering in the trough of a two-game losing streak. The bottom half of the line-up is playing poorly, even though sophomore Jim Torhorst, who should be playing four or five, is in the seventh position...
...subject. Alinsky is a free-lance anti-poverty warrior and self-styled "professional radical" who has spent 27 of his 57 years in the business. "He thinks," says an OEO official, "that he owns the poor." To which Alinsky replies that the Administration program is "the greatest feeding trough that has come along for the welfare industry in years." Ridiculing the paper-sifting public-welfare bureaucracy, he once snorted: "If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, there must be a 36-lane boulevard to hell paved with surveys...