Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employes since 1919, has never had a work stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being a Republican, the nearest thing to an anti-New Deal statement reporters could worm out of him was that he thought the NRA had been an anti-free enterprise experiment...
...Filariasis, a worm infestation, not usually deadly, but bad for morale. Some marines in Samoa got it. In a man's blood, the filariae become very slim worms from one to two inches long, may do little harm; but if they plug lymph-gland ducts, may cause elephantiasis (huge swellings) in scrotum or legs. For some unknown reason the filariae rarely appear in the circulating blood except between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The larvae are carried by ordinary U.S. mosquitoes. As there is no cure for the disease, the only recourse is mosquito control...
...Young Soldier is dismayed by Red-tape Worm, a bureaucrat. Red-tape Worm predicts that in the postwar world human reflexes will be deliberately conditioned soon after birth. Tiny ivory radio sets will be inserted in each skull so the authorities can learn what people think, can flash thoughts into each citizen's head. Worm also predicts that Government will provide for every possible human need...
...feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...
...scholars who will work on these committees will study in a strange, student-empty atmosphere. They will not have the advantage of constant undergraduate contact or of such groups as the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure to give them the worm's perspective. There are a few broad outlines they might well remember. Departments, often made rigid by custom and habit, could be kept alive by frequent conferences, with new ideas actually sought after. The large problem of faculty appointments needs attention--getting the right man to teach the right course, getting the great scholars...