Word: wormed
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...success and, she alleges, became physically abusive. "It seems as if I never went on television shows in those days without a black eye I had to cover over with makeup," she writes. "I was a disgrace, really, to the women's movement by being such a worm. How could I reconcile putting up with being knocked around by my husband while calling on women to rise up against their oppressors?" Carl Friedan, whom she divorced in 1969, calls the allegations of abuse a "complete fabrication." He tells TIME, "I am the innocent victim of a drive-by shooting...
...neighborhood of very massive objects. If an object is dense enough, the curvature can become nearly infinite, perhaps opening a tunnel that connects distant regions of space-time as though they were next door. Physicists call this tunnel a wormhole, in an analogy to the shortcut a worm eats from one side of a curved apple to the other...
Walter Kirn hit the nail on the head in "Will Teenagers Disappear?" [VISIONS 21, Feb. 21]. Kirn noted that an adolescent with his or her own money is not a teenager but a "capitalist early bird out to get the worm." I am in the ninth grade, and I already have a yearly income of about $12,000. I own more than 20 websites and online businesses. At age 12, I was making more business decisions than many adults do. It makes me sick when my teachers treat me like an inferior who needs to be whipped into shape...
...channeling for Dad, whose diplomatic mantra was "The enemy is uncertainty." And in public, Dad is back in the motorcade, doing three stops a day, sometimes late into the night. On the stump he touts his son's record, but there's also some satisfaction in the way the worm has turned. "The country is crying out for a restoration of dignity and respect and honor that has been missing in the White House," the elder Bush said in Michigan two weeks ago. That line always gets the most applause...
...vicissitudes and inventions that have characterized the history of our species and its ancestors since the dawn of life. Genes have already told us that we are the closest relatives of chimpanzees; that the common ancestor of fruit flies and people was a 600 million-year-old segmented worm with the ability to learn; that the Basques are as unrelated to other Eurasians as their language implies and may be descended from indigenous European hunter-gatherers. Genes can even tell us a bit about "LUCA," the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life, a single-celled microbe that lived about...