Word: bloodworm
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...special effects, however, are the stars of Monsters, a lively half-hour anthology, which each week delivers just what is advertised: a grotesque and usually malevolent creature, concocted under the supervision of makeup wizard Dick Smith (The Exorcist). Last season's menagerie ranged from an 8-ft.-tall bloodworm with carnivorous tastes to a woman who turned into a gigantic honeybee and flew off with her reluctant lover...
...Guards' raucous wall posters. China's hostility toward the outside world is as old as the Chinese sense of superiority. As a result, in China's foreign policy, the nation's pride is always in conflict with its innate pragmatism. It should be no surprise, Bloodworm says, that a Chinese Communist still feels closer to a Nationalist Chinese than to a foreign Communist. And sooner or later, Bloodworth suggests, Peking and Taiwan will reach some sort of accommodation, discovering that they have not been "really enemies but just bad friends...
...Toads & Bloodworms. But at the same time he finds villainy of all kinds wildly entertaining. He is convinced that man's inhumanity to man-whether expressed in a simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter...
Salt water worms are of two principal varieties, the smooth-sided bloodworm, which stings, and the fringed sandworm, which pinches. Average length is from six to eight inches, but full-grown sandworms are sometimes a foot long. As bait for flounders, weakfish and porgies they have no peers, the sandworm being especially alluring in spring and autumn, the blood worm in deep summer. Few years ago when salt water worms were rare, fishermen in Long Island Sound were willing to pay as much as 75? a dozen for them. Standard price in this year's well-organized market...
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