Word: worm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Little A (by Hugh White; produced by Sam Nasser) is a story of the turning worm-suddenly up against a hissing cobra. Little A, as middle-aged Aaron Storm is called, is a kindly, sensitive man who was first overshadowed by Big A, his tycoon father, then squashed by his contemptuous, ambitious wife. He has come to loathe her, and when he learns that their son is really his father's, he is spurred to action. Her world threatened, his wife speedily emerges a fine old-fashioned villainess, and Little A becomes melodrama with a big M. The curtain...
...Stoll's paper, This Wormy World, was a loud demand that something be done. He feels that worms are shamefully neglected. They lack drama, cause no great pandemics. But they are persistent, ubiquitous and "unremittingly corrosive." There are less than 2,200 million people in the world, Dr. Stoll estimates, and more than 2,200 million worm infestations. (Some people have an assortment...
Right around Home. The U.S. has its store of worms. In the highbrow town of Princeton, NJ. (where Dr. Stoll lives), 23% of the children were found, in 1943, to be infested with some kind of worms. Commonest U.S. worm is the trichinella, which makes the U.S. its headquarters and infests 21 million people, one-sixth of the population, three times as many as in all the rest of the world. These worms cause trichinosis, with a long list of symptoms: spots on the skin, swellings, nausea, pains all over the body, wasting and general weakness...
Says Dr. Stoll: "When we Americans manifest an unbecoming impatience at how slothful other peoples are in undertaking . . . steps to free themselves from [worm infection], let us ruminate on the extraordinary slowness demonstrated by a supposedly widely educated people to protect itself against trichinosis ... by the simple device of eating pork only when the trichinae in it have been cooked, say, to the consistency of medium-boiled eggs...
...never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling to recognize the vital international issues at stake. With 30% to 60% of a job done, he would quit...