Word: pig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came out a private. I don't get along with people-only slugs." In 1946 he hitchhiked across country to enter the University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill, got his doctorate in zoology at U.C.L.A. "My girl friend was studying embryology. We met over a pig embryo, and so we got married...
...Useless Pig Iron. At Wuhan last December, the Central Committee of the party had to recognize that 1) the frenzied bombardment of Quemoy had failed to shake the nerve of either Formosa or the U.S., and 2) the ruthless jamming of peasants into rural communes had disorganized the nation. Ships lay for as much as two weeks at Shanghai docks awaiting loading and unloading. Textile mills lacked raw material; exports fell off; production was declining everywhere. Thousands of tons of pig iron were turned out by backyard furnaces but then proved useless without further costly refining; there was not enough...
More serious than that charge, however, is the assertion that we are suffering from an Identity Crisis. What this is exactly is explained by Sara Dakin (co-editor of Gadfly) in her laboriously symbolic essay, "Pig." At the price of trying to write on six levels of meaning, and, after switching metaphors in midstream, she says, "All pigs wander through this limbo period, constantly asking themselves "Who am I?' and 'What is my place in the pen?' This. . . we described as undergoing an identity crisis...
...editors, stumbled across three major items for his futures list in one day: a tractor rig that on one trip plowed, spread fertilizer, pulled a harrow and spread insecticide; an experiment that took piglets from their mothers by surgery and raised them in disease-free surroundings; and an operating "pig factory" which successfully used new techniques (TIME, March 9) to raise pigs in one building from birth to marketing...
...great leap forward" in 1958, the harsh fact before Mao and his colleagues was that the great leap forward had actually brought China close to economic chaos. By concentrating the nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign to produce pig iron and steel in homemade blast furnaces-the Communists had created labor shortages in agriculture and industry, had so snarled China's inadequate transportation network that shipments of food and vital raw materials into the big industrial cities had dwindled to trickles...