Word: boar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that money. "What will be," says Sir Cedric mysteriously, "will...
...Boars & Bills. At the second barn the President watched a Berkshire boar, the gift of the Glenwood All Breed Swine Association of Glenwood, Minn., being unloaded from a trailer. "Hey, he's a nice-looking fellow," said Farmer Eisenhower, as the pig romped out. "There's your new home, Butch; go right in." Butch waddled into the pig pen. When photographers asked the President to call the pig, he' obliged with a fine Abilene-style hog call. "Sooooooey, soooooey, hoh, peeg, peeg, peeg," he crooned. Then he glanced at his watch. "I better get back to work...
...variations characteristic of personal dictatorships. He divorced his second wife in 1947, married Jovanka, a strappingly handsome Partisan half his age, who even in evening dress looks as if she had just taken off her Sam Browne belt. Tito now lives in a palace, drinks the finest wines, hunts boar and drives in a bulletproof...
...Goodwin Jess Knight had most of the things that make men happy: a handsome young wife, two beautiful daughters, a pleasant home, money in the bank. Although half his stomach was removed in an ulcer operation three years ago, he had the health and strength of a Poland boar. He had the job he had always pined for, and was happy in his work...
Samuel A. Boar, professor of Government and lecturer in Social Sciences 2, said, "It will be splendid to have Murdock as chairman. I am delighted and I am sure that the rest of the faculty is equally pleased...