Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...
Through to the Shore. After that, the Japanese on the 4th Division's front were so weakened that the stalemate was broken The 4th got into gear with the 3rd and 5th. The drive for the north shore was speeded from a slow crawl to a slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back...
Since mid-December, when the first of a series of blizzards and icy gales lashed at their overloaded lines, the roads had done more than their usual best to clear the tracks. But main-line trains slowed to a crawl: the crack Twentieth Century Limited was ten and a half hours late on one scheduled run of 17 hours from Chicago to New York City. Freight was delayed and congestion grew faster than it could be relieved...
...independence, the pastors at one stroke set their church free, cut off their state-provided livelihoods, left themselves facing concentration camp or death. (One of them, Arne Thu. vicar of Vestby and veteran Indian missionary, died in a concentration camp at Grini last June after being forced to crawl hundreds of yards with his hands behind his back and a latrine bucket in his teeth, for the amusement of his quisling guards.) But all made clear that they would continue to carry on their work accepting "no directions as to how God's Word should be preached...
...fellow Fijis tried to rescue him. Sefanaia shouted to them to go back. Several of them were wounded, but others continued to crawl towards him under machine-gun fire. To save his companions, Sefanaia deliberately raised his body-and dropped, riddled with bullets...