Word: bookworm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly what the term "wonk" signifies, of course varies with who uses the word; it can denote anything from all those who got a better grade on the last hour exam than the speaker to a bonafide anal compulsive bookworm. Generally speaking, the term applies to a sort of drab toiler of limited cosmic vision, whose main concern in life is his academic grade average...
Only Two Can Play. Peter Sellers is perfectly hilarious as a lubricous bookworm, a wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan...
...plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm, the wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan...
...House life. In addition, the ten-year-old movie has a message from "President Conant" and misses scenes of Loeb, Quincy, Leverett, and other additions of the last decade. The sports emphasis is a left-over from the fifties when the University apparently had to overcome a "pink, bookworm" image...
Kindergarten & Bookworms. All these machines are the products of a little-known firm called Farrington Manufacturing Co. of Needham Heights, Mass., an old-line display-box and credit-card maker that has taken a giant step into electronics. Tiny Farrington (1959 gross revenues: $10.9 million) has stolen a march on the nation's giant business machine makers. It is the only U.S. company with scanners in commercial operation, already has 31 reading voraciously for U.S. industry. This week Farrington announced that five insurance companies have ordered optical scanners to solve their premium-billing paperwork problems. Farrington's scanners...