Word: boar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's gastronomic spectrum stands Fortnum & Mason, which specializes in the world's most elegant delicacies; its salesmen wear morning coats, ship such rarities as boar's head in aspic and breast of Scottish grouse to all corners of the globe. At the other end are London's ABC shops, a chain of 164 cheap self-service tearooms. This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain...
...story holds pretty true to Orwell. Manor Farm is run by a drunken brute named Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible...
...Boar v. Coon...
Your May 17 cover article on Ray Jenkins, one of our favorite East Tennesseans, was highly appreciated in this section . . . You referred to him as the "Terror of Tellico Plains," which reminded me of another Tellico terror: the wild boar of that section, which, pound for pound, is the fiercest fighter of the mountains. Both terrors are scrappers, and with no disrespect to Ray, believe you will note a remarkable likeness in the jut of their jaws [see cuts...
...suggest to Mr. Jenkins that he use the boar as his symbol in his coming bout with Senator Kefauver, who uses a coon...