Word: tapeworm
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...speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday night and is rich as hot gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened stumps ("tombstones") and possesses nothing much but a cherished tapeworm, which he "gasses" with liberal quantities of raw onion. But his friendship with Arp glows like the lavatory float of "valuable copper" in a desert of uncommercial junk...
...current price of tape (up to $5 per hour), the tapeworm's music will cost him about as much as the most expensive LP; often it will sound better,† because tape at its best reduces surface noise...
...fowled up in a lot of red tapeworm...
What the visible enemies left of a man, the invisible ones were ready to attack. Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth...
...harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education, she distributes funds to land-grant colleges and administers the teacher-student exchange program with foreign countries. She is legally concerned with the problem of tapeworm control among Alaskan caribou, with cancer research, and with the attitude of Congress toward fluoridation of children's teeth. She prints Braille books, extends credit to deserving citizens, bosses the nation's largest Negro university (Howard, in Washington), and brings out new editions of the Government...