Word: worming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than any other treatment. Today's vets usually have a couple of years of college, a four-year V.M. course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses...
...Central Kitchen victims: "Should you find a worm or insect in your food, say nothing about...
...seems there is a worm in the grapefruit...
...take a worm's-eye view of the world conflict and cut foreign aid, hamstring reciprocal trade and emasculate our information program, I can tell you that the billions we spend for missiles and submarines and aircraft will be going right down a rathole. And mark my words, if the Communists gain control of the people and resources of the uncommitted nations of the world, they will hold the whip hand...
...Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...