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...Carbon tetrachloride is often prescribed by doctors in appreciably less than teaspoon doses as a vermifuge (worm chaser...
...Instead of being vermiform (worm-shaped), it may be S-shaped, U-shaped, or even split into two branches. ¶ Some people have two appendices; there are 28 known cases of people who had none...
...notes were genuine) the priest had written: "My Veronika, forgive me. Goodbye . . . Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps not even they." To his court and jailers: "I blame nobody . . . Food was good." To his prosecutor: "The wheel of history has passed over a worm." To God: "How stupid it is. Before my life's end, I am lunching and dining and taking exercise . . . God, where...
...spring recession seemed to have reassured most of the doubters. The sight of smoking factory stacks and the feel of cash in the weekly pay envelope had been habit forming; rightly or wrongly, millions seemed to feel that there was such a thing as looking too hard for a worm in the apple...
Restless, adventurous Nico was not to be home for long. At 17 he wanted to join the army, but an uncle took him in hand and put him to work loading at the Black Sea port of Zonguldak. That, says Erato, "is where the worm got him"-in Zonguldak, among the Communist seamen who lured him off to Russia...