Word: squirmingly
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...moment, it seemed that the day's first news story might develop at Radcliffe, when Elvira R. Squirm '63 ran down the hall of her dormitory screaming, "Help! There's a man in my bed!" But it was a false alarm; Miss Squirm, whose eyes were watering from swallowing too much Listerine, had walked into someone else's room...
Still, it's a great show for what the Disney organization has called "the under-twelve sector," and even though it runs long enough (2 hrs. 6 min.) to make the over-twelve sector squirm. Family seems likely to recoup most of Disney's 1960 losses: $1,500,000. The tigers are pretty, the boa is a swallowpaloosa, the tree house is a little boy's daydream. And the violent, ludicrous last-reel battle with the pirates is a grand display of blow-the-man-downmanship-a regular Donald Duck comedy in live action...
...President vetoed the bills, the Democrats would cry that Republicans placed more emphasis on budget balancing than on public needs. As a kind of sideshow to this main act, two Northern Republicans vowed to submit the Democratic civil-rights plank as a bill, hoping to watch Southern Democrats squirm...
...when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path to the white marble Senate Caucus Room. Even the in-laws are not immune to the sudden fevers: Bobby's wife Ethel, often accompanied...
...outside for their youthful audiences. But if the world outside was anything like the one described at commencements across the U.S. last week, 1960s graduate would do well to forget that $600-a-month job offer and bury himself as far back in the library stacks as he can squirm. The mood was one of gloom, doom, and disdain for the U.S. and the road it is traveling: ¶ Princeton University President Robert F. Goheen, baccalaureate address: "Near and far the cheap and tawdry are glorified over achievements of solid worth; opiates of half-truth are seized in preference...