Word: worming
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Misnamed more than 500 years ago, ringworm is caused not by a worm but by a fungus, usually Microsporon audouini. In North America the commonest fungus disease is popularly called "athlete's foot...
...home. Scripters Anne Froelick and James Gunn have dropped the murder from the plot of Harriet Craig. They concern themselves instead with a jealous woman who tries to dominate her husband. This may be the reason the movie loses headway early and becomes a tiresome wait for the worm to turn and give Joan Crawford her comeuppance...
There was only one worm in the golden apple. Because the wage boosts would bring certain price increases, the cost of living would spurt upwards again and so would the cost of U.S. defense and the taxes...
...strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...
...Carbon tetrachloride is often prescribed by doctors in appreciably less than teaspoon doses as a vermifuge (worm chaser...