Word: wormed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even after some reporters were given a limited tour of Grenada by military officials on Thursday, news executives felt that they had got only what one of those reporters, ABC Correspondent Richard Threlkeld, called "a worm's-eye view, just a little segment of what was going on." Journalists who attempted to reach the island on their own by private boat, as TIME's Diederich and his companions had done earlier, were run off by U.S. destroyers and other naval vessels...
Reagan Administration officials maintained last week that the state of the contra offensive had not significantly changed. Impressions drawn by reporters on the scene represented, according to a U.S. intelligence expert, a "worm's-eye view." He added, "Some contra units may be coming under pressure from Sandinista troops, but the contras are not being pushed out of Nicaragua." Maybe not, but they are certainly having their difficulties, as TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter discovered last week when he crossed the Honduran border to visit contra positions.* His report...
...this night he is running through the SPICE program on a $70,000 Symbolics LM2 computer. The project's goal: to provide a network (a group of interconnected computers) with almost unlimited memory and computation power. He also uses the terminal to play games-Star Wars, Splines and Worm-devised by students and faculty members at C.M.U. and other schools...
...Chairman Yasir Arafat, living in the dream world that Sartawi disdained, deserves much blame for this latest outbreak of hit-and-run political murder. True, it was a splinter faction led by one of Arafat's worm enemies that ordered the slaying and took credit for it soon after. But it was Arafat himself who had effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear to every...
John Birch's Belmont headquarters are quiet enough. There's a receptionist or two. The carpet has a dull, worm-out and lifeless look. McManus's cramped office is strewn with assorted books, papers, and memorabilia, and on the wall hangs a portrait of Marine General Chester Puller, a Korean War hero...