Word: squirmingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class. After flying for France in World War I, he came home, served as secretary to revolutionary President Alvaro Obregon, became one of Mexico's best engineers. Now he often gives parties on the family's half-ruined hacienda at Yautepec. and sometimes makes old family friends squirm by assuring them that Mexico's progress began when the great haciendas were destroyed...
...from RKO's crusty new boss, Howard Hughes, he can forget it. For "Station West," one of the last pictures Schary made at RKO before his collision with Hughes, will certainly accomplish any dark purpose he may have in mind. It stinks and it will make Mr. Hughes squirm like a rattlesnake on a lot stove...
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...