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...human race is riddled with worms. They coil and squirm and chew through most of the world's population. When the average man dies, a host of worms dies with him. But wormkind goes wriggling on, to infest his children, reduce their vitality, cause disfiguring sores or swellings, and lower their resistance...
...implications of communist objectives be overlooked by liberals, no matter how greatly progressive organizations may need strength for the tasks ahead. For not only do communist members seek to control those bodies which they infest, but they are unable to give true allegiance to the goals of democratic progressivism...
Your handling of the story "San Francisco Spectacle" [TIME, May 7] was masterly and TIMELY-a long overdue explanation to the public of the difference between legitimate representatives of the press and those who infest the fringes of the once-proud Fourth Estate...
...would convene the National Assembly, and if reports were true, break off diplomatic and economic relations with Germany. He would also offer the use of Turkish airfields to Allied planes, close the Straits to German ships, round up some 2,000 Nazi spies who, from their headquarters in Turkey, infest the entire Near East...
Against the windows of Manhattan's Criminal Courts Building the bulletlike drops of the first spring rains beat and splashed with homicidal violence. The crowd of cops, dicks, court attendants, learned counsel, plain loafers and plain prurient goons who infest such scenes beat against the court's doors. Behind the doors was beginning one of the most sensational murder trials in Manhattan's legal history. Justice, as men understand it, was being meted out to Wayne Lonergan, handsome, six-foot, crop-headed Royal Canadian Air Force aircraftman charged with murdering his socialite wife last October...