Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cousinly misunderstanding is no fault of the average journalist. The average editor who employs Englishmen to write about you and Americans to write about the United Kingdom is not really to blame. The poor fish is the average reader who on both coasts of the Atlantic selects the worm to taste before he swallows the hook. Even you, mighty angler that you are, must not tell them the bait is phony; otherwise, we shall all go short on Fridays...