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Word: wormed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows Tyrone Power in modern dress -and about time. As a cocky American pilot with an eye for the ladies, dark-eyed Tyrone is a Yank who fights at Dunkirk with the R.A.F. Although he feels called upon from time to time to refer to himself as "a worm," his performance is not as bad as all that, is pleasantly human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...registrants, calmly explained that he was just waiting till he was sure they were definitely in the institution before he pulled that line about giving them unlimited credit till June of their Senior year. "You may be an early bird," he beamed "but I prefer to be a smart worm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Considered Putty In Hands of Strange Fate | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

...Hollywood viewed it, was a bright and glamorous city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about. Cabarets, with their white slaves, adventurers, opium-runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Japanese Torture | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Correspondent Steele met Major General Liu Teh-ming. General Liu had gone to Shanghai, attempted to worm his way into the confidence of Arch-Traitor Wang Ching-wei's underlings, was suspected, taken to No. 76. First the chief of the torturers used persuasion; then, says General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Japanese Torture | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Last week a big worm turned in Wall Street. Underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. haled SEC into court, demanded that it reverse its Dayton Power decision and return $90,844 in underwriting fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worm Turns | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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