Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modern imperialism ... an unbridled tendency toward expansion which has within it the gnawing worm of ceaseless unrest...
...Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They caught the nagging, namby-pamby nonsense of Glow-Worm. Their Cocktails for Two, to a 1934 sob ballad, was such a jukebox favorite that Victor made 150,000 pressings with it on both sides - so that as soon as one side wore out the other side could be played to death...
Washington took it off the ration list. But meat-some meat-was viewed with alarm last week by Detroit's Dr. S. E. Gould. Dr. Gould was brooding about trichinosis, the sometimes-fatal worm disease that people get from infested pork...
...Vile worm!-oh madness! pride! impiety...
...years Indiana was the champion low hurdle for Midwestern powerhouses. The University had the smallest male enrollment in the conference, and home games in Bloomington drew so poorly that the team played mostly on the road. First crack out of the box this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...