Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baffled by quantities of ensigns running around giving and taking orders, we found friends who had taken to heart advice from the home port and arrived before the birds and got stuck with the inevitable worm--instructing all the uninitiated in the fine art of reporting for duty. Miss Gaertner has been tying up the loose ends ever since, and by now we hope we are all squared away...
...gang's all here, Round-headed, pop-eyed little birds blinking at you over the edge of the nest, or pulling a worm two ways, snoring squirrels raising their big square incisors as they inhale and puffing heir paraboloid checks as they exhale. Not to mention an irritated and sleepless chipmunk blanketing himself under the tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling...
...years had served as model for the dreamy, giraffe-necked ladies he painted. When his wife died Rossetti buried his book of unpublished verses in her coffin. Years later he had to exhume his wife's coffin to recover them. Laboriously deciphering the words on the worm-eaten pages, he presented the poems to a public pre-thrilled by their funereal history...
Douglas workers were startled when the Tokio Kid first appeared, but soon adopted him. About a dozen posters since Pearl Harbor have shown him with teeth and claws growing progressively longer and sharper, a brow becoming more apelike, ears more pointed. A worm crawling out of a huge front tooth was eliminated, after one try, as a little too gruesome...
...Will the new back-bending program centered down in Soldiers Field make a human being, physically, out of the Widener worm, and a Charles Atlas out of the squash-court dilettante,?" is one of the questions that will soon be answered by the tests now being conducted by the Fatigue Laboratory at the Business School, according to Dr. Arlie V. Bok, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene...