Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kono asked Al Blake if he would get in touch with yeomen aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, try to worm some Navy secrets out of them. Blake agreed. Then he went to see Naval Intelligence officers, reported his conversation with Kono. They told him to go ahead, work with the Japanese, see what he could unearth...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt reached a worm-turning point. Having tolerated strikes in defense industry for many months-until the public was fed up and Congress indignant-he either had to put up or curl up. The three strikes which put him in that spot were in the logging camps of the Northwest, in San Francisco shipyards, at North American Aviation, Inc., in Inglewood, Calif. In each case strikers had arrogantly defied the Federal Government. In each case responsible labor leaders repudiated the strike. So finally the President spanked...
Story. In Shreveport, La., C. E. Whitney returned from nearby Cross Lake with a fish story: on one cast he caught five catfish. Someone had lost a string of five, and one of the five went for Whitney's worm...
...Morph" doesn't return next fall, Harlow will really have his hands full trying to find another multiple-threat back to take his place. Lee has proved himself one of the greatest pass-defenders ever to worm his way into a tight-fitting Crimson Jersey, besides exhibiting a healthy degree of caiss in the punt-handling and open-field-running departments...
Found. In Siler City, N. C., embarrassed Attorney L. P. Dixon inserted an ad in the local paper: "Found-one liquor still-complete with cap and worm on or near my land. Owner please identify and pay for this...