Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house of worship, and to have kicked off the genre. After that, spoonerisms got quite elaborate. Spooner once reportedly chided a student: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. In fact, you have tasted the whole worm, and must leave by the first town drain...
...company as soon as the cease-fire expired in May. Barrow, therefore, huddled with some of Kennecott's directors last November and then announced a pre emptive strike: Kennecott was going to take over Curtiss-Wright. Said one Wall Street source: "The apple had bitten the worm." The copper company offered Curtiss-Wright owners $40 a share for their stock, nearly twice the then prevailing rate. Curtiss-Wright promptly went to court to halt the takeover attempt, but the court ruled that Barrow could go ahead with his move...
...left-wing faction to gain control in Tehran. The Soviets could offer to guarantee Iran's security. Or they might pose as mediators and win a major role at a peace conference called to end the war Says one well-informed analyst: "If the Soviet Union can worm its way in as guarantor of a steady oil flow, it has taken a gigantic strategic leap forward. It's a worst-case scenario that is by no means inconceivable...
...River blindness, also called onchocerciasis, is caused by infection from a worm carried by flies, and occurs particularly in West Africa, Guatemala and Mexico. The World Bank, in a project to eradicate the disease in seven African nations within 12 years, has pledged $150 mil lion to spray the flies' breeding waters...
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