Word: vermiform
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...University in St. Louis, to explain the damp fascinations of caving ("spelunking" seems to be a word not much used by cavers). Their book is a splendid armchair challenge, properly made, properly obsessive. For non-cavers who read it, the sensation of being trapped in Mother Earth's vermiform appendix is persuasively real, and the impulse to run gasping into the open air is strong...
...motives that move Columnist Walter Winchell's wormlike thrusts are mysterious to the average man-but not so mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform "journalism." Of late weeks, he has been relentlessly worming away at a little-known Manhattan restaurant called Chandler's. According to Winchell, the place is a "gyp joint" run by gougers and chiselers. Stork Clubber Winchell has never been seen in Chandler's himself, but in the past three weeks he has extruded no less than twelve items, even repeating one attack three times. Last week Chandler...
Since the dawn of modern medicine the vermiform appendix has seemed to be a completely useless organ. This week, the University of Chicago's Dr. Leon 0. Jacobson suggested that a use for the appendix may have been found...
...Instead of being vermiform (worm-shaped), it may be S-shaped, U-shaped, or even split into two branches. ¶ Some people have two appendices; there are 28 known cases of people who had none...
...that very day, said Reader Benardete, she had found "its" and "it's" hopelessly mixed up in an advertisement in the Times. The apostrophe, she hinted, is about as useful as the vermiform appendix...