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Hard-pressed Preston Tucker had done his best to squirm out of a full-dress investigation. When SEC first asked for a quiet look at his records, he balked. Then the commission, still preserving a tactful silence in public, subpoenaed him to appear with his books. Tucker took his case to the newspapers and thus broke the news that SEC wanted to see what was going on in Tucker Corp. In full-page ads, with the air of a man whose patience is infinite, he said: "My associates and myself and the Tucker Corp. have been investigated time & again...
...attitudes was at stake. During the war, such Quebec publishing concerns as Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...
...produced some catchy tunes. Dan Dailey can sing and dance. Jeanne Crain is very pretty. After this much has been osmosed, the fan with the higher IQ begins to squirm a little in his chair, because "You Were Meant For Me" skips and chirps its several reels with a little less than a plot...
Down the Red Flag. March 1944 is the beginning of Togliatti's experiment in "respectable" revolution. Mussolini's regime is dead, and the Italian people squirm to the light-dazed, vaguely jubilant, cheering the U.S. as liberator. This is a unique opportunity for the West to establish a healthy Italian democracy. But the Communists see an opportunity, too. Many of them want to start a revolution immediately. Under the heavy March rains, Italy's mud seems like the very clay of history...
...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...