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...recognizing the animal it comes from has long been a part of Anglo-Saxon culture, a part that one pitiful little endpaper like this could hardly hope to explode. Consider the fact that the meats in the English language have different names from the animals they come from (pig, pork; deer, venison; cow, beef) because the Norman rulers in England were the ones who got to enjoy meat while the poor peasants could only herd the animals, or at best raise them for dairy products. But that doesn't excuse baseless assumptions. It's always good to analyze the source...
...remember riding on George Herbert Walker Bush's campaign bus through the countryside of downstate Illinois in the early fall of 1988. The candidate was in his pork rinds mode: An exuberant populist condescension used to overwhelm Bush's WASPiness around election time and dispatch him on missions of good-natured political slumming. He sang along to country music. In every public square, he hammered away at big, cheap themes: 1) Willie Horton, the Black Monster on Furlough; 2) Read My Lips, No New Taxes; and 3) Uncouth Radicals Want to Burn Your Flag...
Then there's Airbus, long ridiculed by Boeing as a massive pork-barrel project for second-rate aircraft manufacturers. Last year the European consortium captured 55% of global-passenger jetliner sales, outflanking Boeing for the first, but probably not the last, time. Competitive prices and superior salesmanship are factors in the success of Airbus, but so is technology. Airbus beat Boeing to the market with computer-laden "fly-by-wire" technology, which, it says, enhances safety while lowering costs. The flying experience is so similar from model to model that Airbus-equipped airlines save millions of dollars in training costs...
...morning, a rarity in parched Arizona, they had an omen of victory. Early Tuesday afternoon, McCain gathered with his staff in the sprawling kitchen of his Phoenix home, where he had just had a haircut. His four younger children ran in and out of the room. "Jack's a pork-barrel spender," joked 11-year-old Jimmy about his 13-year-old brother, using one of his father's favorite insults. Aides chowed on grilled cheese sandwiches while McCain cycled through a round of radio interviews on the phone. Political strategist Murphy got a call from a network-television source...
...lettuce, a gray-haired meat chomper probably looks pretty intimidating. Ornish and Atkins were together in Washington Thursday, joined by numerous other diet "gurus" for the government-sponsored "Great Nutrition Debate." Accusations of quackery were exchanged freely between the panelists, whose weight-loss prescriptions range from Atkins' all-protein pork-and-beef fest to John McDougall's Asian rice plan. The only thing anyone could agree on was that Americans need to lose weight...