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...Billy's mind was what lay on the bottom of his stomach. "Boys," said a sergeant to his men one day. "I was eating a piece of hardtack this morning, and I bit on something soft; what do you think it was?" A private suggested: "A worm?" "No, by God." said the sergeant, "it was a tenpenny nail." One soldier summed up: "It goes perty greasey Sometimes." One statistic tells the whole story: more Union soldiers died from diarrhea and dysentery (57,265) than were killed in battle...
...police arrived soon afterward, burst open the door of the old house and picked their way through a jungle of cobwebs, worm-ridden period furniture, a hall jammed with bottles of curdled milk and old clothes piled higher than a man's shoulders. A menagerie of budgereegahs, canaries, pigeons, dogs and cats had added their meed to the midden. Cowering in a corner, covered only by a tattered red blanket, hunched the man who had screamed at the window. His matted beard reached his knees. The nails of his toes and fingers curled in uncut proliferation. The police soon...
...practices during Britain's last election. Just before the election, the Times and other papers had carried, as an advertisement, a special report to stockholders by a group of British-Malayan tin companies which concluded: "The nation, let alone your valuable companies in Malaya, cannot survive if the worm of Socialism is permitted to continue...
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting...
Near the end of his speech, Truman tenderly fingered another Fair Deal sore point. "Some dishonest people," he said, "worm themselves into almost every human organization. It is all the more shocking, however, when they make their way into a Government such as ours ... I intend to see to it that federal employees who have been guilty of misconduct are punished...