Word: worming
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...care what you were before you got here--you're Dartmouth freshmen, kin to the worm, now, and will be treated as such. Consider what's coming an honor, an undergraduate equivalent of matriculation, a sign of acceptance into the Dartmouth community. If you still think it's kid stuff, far, far beneath your mature dignity, remember this: Dartmouth was run that way before you were thought of, will be run that way after you're dead. If you don't like it, what the hell are you here...
...screwed up his courage last week and read Congressional Candidate Edmund Bobrowicz right out of the Democratic Party. Said Tehan: "I am convinced that Bobrowicz is a Communist Party member." In effect, the purge set a Democratic policy: the bosses were not going to let Communists masquerading as Democrats worm into office-at least, not if their masks slipped...
...Jack-of-many-deals, he operated in real estate, films, aircraft promotion. Twice in nine years he put himself through the bankruptcy wringer for a loss to his creditors of more than $600,000. Yet he had been able to worm himself into Government jobs that opened up new fields for his operations...
Sure Bait. In Superior, Wis., Mildred Worm agreed to marry David Hook...
...Eskimos remove the eyes and swallow them so the animal cannot watch itself being skinned. The first time Campbell went on a walrus hunt, it all but turned his stomach to see a native gulping down handfuls of live maggots from the carcass. Once he tried a live worm from a slaughtered caribou, and found it most disagreeable...