Word: squirm
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...space was so small he couldn't squirm around. He couldn't see out of his little prison. He had not had a bite to eat or a drop of water...
After a sneak preview RKO decided that this ending was a squirm-inducer. Producer David Hempstead tinkered and cut. Miss Rogers said that patchwork was no good. So a new ending was contrived in which Miss Rogers got her bad news, bit her lip, marched off bravely to work. They were wrestling with a third version when a letter came from a war widow who had seen the sneak preview. Miss Rogers, wrote the widow, had put into words exactly what she had felt and been unable to say in all the months since her husband was killed. The first...
...Buna campaign a scout, returning to his unit, was asked what he had seen. "Two whorehouses and a pub," he whispered. Shaking with silent laughter (the enemy was so close they could not laugh out loud), his comrades "began to squirm forward to attack the three pillboxes their scout had so engagingly described...
...Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...
Through the office passed a long line of convicts in stripes, to testify for the visiting members of a special legislative committee. The testimony might have made impassive Warden Clay squirm...