Word: troughing
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...have become champions of monopoly, Harris wants to abolish many of them. Where it proved necessary, he would support outright government ownership of private industry. He would provide more steeply graduated individual and corporate income taxes to get "the rich off welfare" and "the big hogs out of the trough...
...place can say that federal money isn't life or death for it--not even this one, "Daly said. "We're at the public trough, though at a much less intense degree than others. But shut off that trough and we'd be goddamn hungry...
This movie begins with a sure sign oi trouble to follow: a montage of stills showing cute kids, each representing an ethnic minority, all of them pretty and smiling and irritatingly adorable. Having established this trough at the very outset, Writer-Director Melville Shavelson is free to proceed downward...
...urban neighborhoods, here the streets were virtually spotless. I stopped at one house where a man was digging at some newly-sprouted crops that popped out of well-groomed furrows. In the small yard adjoining the house there were a couple of pigs eating out of a feeding trough. In the corner was a large, hemispherical earthen oven, where the farmer's wife baked bread. A pile of freshly-cut eucalyptus wood lay next to the oven. The man, very small and with a rough wizened face, had walked up to within a few yards of me and stopped...
...nation may well be poised on a fateful fulcrum that will either tip predominant sentiment toward a new faith in its fundamental institutions?including Congress, the Constitution and the courts?or send it into a trough of public despair and anomie. The direction will depend to a large degree upon how many members of Congress, Government