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Word: hawg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party for anybody who wants to come. When they arrive we'll just add another plate to the table, and tell them to come on in-we'll give them all the soda pop and hot dogs and buttermilk they want ... if I have to kill every hawg I can raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Happy Days | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Before Hummon had finished telling his wife to start moving out of the executive mansion, his office was jammed with snorting, stomping Talmadge backers. Hulking Representative Jimmy Dykes, the ex-black-marketeer who had likened former Governor Ellis Arnall to a "hawg," bellowed: "We'll get a court of our own." Then, putting on his own boar-like dignity: "You know what MacArthur said -I shall return." Hummon just smiled. Within 15 minutes, he vacated the office -as he had said he would-and Georgia's 63-day fling at two-headed government was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Don't Shove! | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...denied even this. Hummon sent one Jimmy Dykes (237 boarlike pounds of smalltime politician) to sit at it instead. Said Jimmy, when Arnall arrived: "Ellis, you remind me of a hawg. Did you ever slop a hawg? The more you give him the more he wants and he never knows when to get out of the trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...tall shanghai rooster and one spotted hawg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Troubadour | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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