Word: tapeworm
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...mere cataloguers, the Misses Rothschild and Clay get a certain mischievous enjoyment out of their work with parasites. "The thought of a tapeworm as long as a cricket pitch [22 yards] living secretly in the stomach of a film star," they say, "arouses in us a feeling of macabre amusement...
...fourth place, I deeply resent the headline: "Bookworm? No--Tapeworm! I am a sweet-tempered man, but I cannot bear in silence the totally unfounded charge of being a tapeworm. It is monstrous. T. B. Roos...
Ford was always three jumps ahead of old OPM's red-tapeworm. While OPM was conferring and writing interoffice memos, Ford was proving his old theory of one-man control. He had no stockholders; he was more interested in making things than making money; all he had to do, to get a new plant built, was call in Production Boss Charles E. Sorensen and say: "All right, Charlie, let's go ahead...
...germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...