Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their peasant shrewdness and stubborn ness against German craft and arrogance, and conducting an increasingly terrible battle against sleep, they set to work to worm the officer out of the group and the information out of the officer...
...worm-turning spirit spread to a crowd at a nearby station, who joined in the fun of tossing rocks to destroy signboards. When the train began to move again, the rebellious commuters clambered aboard-but at every stopping place they spread revolution and left behind a trail of mob-torn stations...
...worm-turned-dragon finally went too far: he set the train on fire. As the flames crept forward, the driver unhitched the engine, sped up the line for police...
...Illinois' ghoulish-minded Brothers Albright were represented by Maine landscapes with as moldy-looking surfaces as the worm's-eye views of decomposing human flesh which made them famous (TIME, July...
...magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...