Word: worm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of the year shone gently upon the broken cities and the exhausted fields of Europe. On Berlin's Kreuzberg, frost stiffened upon the worm-wrought, illegible features of an exhumed, Gestapo-killed cadaver to which someone had attached a tag reading, Homo sapiens...
Even the professional pessimists admitted that the college football worm had turned. Enough name players were either out or coming out of service to make a big difference. A stepped-up Navy R.O.T.C. program (having taken the place of ¥12) was another talent source. And now that teen-age draft requirements, had been eased (see EDUCATION), even the fuzzy-cheeked freshmen who carried last year's load looked bigger & better...
...disliked such things as fishing because he hated to put the worm on the hook. As a student in a Brooklyn public school he gained a reputation as a minor prodigy...
British rules of speech have retained some influence in the U.S., Mencken admits. But whereas most Briticisms rarely penetrate below U.S. "levels of cultural pretentions," Americanisms subversively invade the British proletariat via movies, magazines and comic-strips, then worm their insidious way up into the best society...
...only words spoken at the graveside came from a British Tommy: "Let the worm go to the worms...