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Four years ago the U.S. was anxiously instructing all the world's neutrals in the dangers of Communism, worriedly warned that the devious Communists would worm their way into any neutralist regime and make off with it. The U.S. has learned that a strong nationalist government, firmly rooted in its own people, can defend itself against Communism's blandishments and pressures, not on behalf of the West but on its own behalf. In their turn, neutralists have watched Communism operate, and learned to be wary. India has learned that Red China talks peace but grabs off border lands...
...These people in Washington must know what they're doing or they wouldn't be there," he declared in tones of grudging admiration; then, turning the worm, he added: "And they're not there." On the same theme, Mort announced: "President Eisenhower is in charge of everything-whenever Nixon leaves the country." Picking off the mighty and famous, Sahl got the surprise of the week when his angriest foe turned out to be his TV sponsor, California Millionaire Bart Lytton (Lytton Savings & Loan Association). A Kennedy backer.* Lytton simmered in the control booth as Sahl and guests...
...great cathedral. Built by native Anglican converts a century ago, it was long the center of Anglican missionary work in Nyasaland and a showpiece of transplanted Christianity. Today, huge cracks threaten to bring down the remnants of its walls, and its stained-glass windows hang crazily from their worm-eaten wooden frames...
Author Beagle, 20. has written a wry dialogue with death that may contain no large lump of wisdom but offers a fair selection of small ones. Except for an occasional lapse of taste (a coffin is a "worm Automat"), his ectoplasmic fable has a distinct, mossy charm...
...these words the worm suddenly turns; the red ink in the bookkeeper's veins begins to boil; he develops a double-entry personality; he decides to erase this intolerable female, rub out this erroneous entry in the tidy ledger of his life. And the scene in which the meek little monster attempts to execute his resolve-with the help of cigarettes, whisky, open windows, kitchen knives and even an egg whisk-is a grand piece of sustained nonsense...