Word: squirmings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student is calculated to make almost any pedagogue squirm...
...Bulgars Squirm. The Bulgars had asked the Anglo-Americans for terms-terms that would let them remain neutral, keep their German-given gains in Greece and Yugoslavia, protect German soldiers and weapons still in Bulgaria. But Moscow growled: "Bulgarian ruse . . . false maneuvers . . . subterfuge and secret connivance with the Germans! . . ." Down crashed the government of artful Prime Minister Ivan Bagrianoff. To the helm in Sofia went a Russophile cabinet headed by a leftist Peasant leader, Constantine Muraviev...
...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...