Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remark of the week: "Holiday always looks like he was running against a high wind". . . We're committed to secrecy but we can tell you next issue just what well known Dog will crawl into the permanent kennel December 24. . . double if he waits up for Santa...
...boats and other landing craft to get over Betio's reef (TIME, Dec. 6). The Navy blamed this on a sudden strong wind that lowered the water. For the next atoll, they might be prepared with improved boats or amphibious machines adapted from the "Alligator" tractor that can crawl over a sharp coral shelf...
...Handbills." "Some eastern Republicans," snorted the Tribune, for no apparent reason, "have shown a disposition to crawl under the furniture whenever they have been threatened with the terrible wrath of the New York Herald Tribune or even the New York Post. Why anyone should ever have feared the displeasure of such little handbills . . . is a mystery...
Crime 251, War 145. The story took shape at a crawl, at first looked more Ellery Queenish than it was. But when the last replate went to bed at 3 a.m., the News had its picture and coverage with only one gap in it: there was nothing much about Patricia's husband, R.C.A.F. Cadet Wayne Lonergan...
...operational planning is careful and accurate and he is in fact one of the Air Forces' great tacticians. When preparing for a raid or holding a planning conference he likes to spread maps on the floor and crawl over them to line up his objectives and make them clear to his crews. Last week when his promotion was announced, Ted was off in the blue somewhere. It seemed a reasonable, if unofficial, guess that the "poop" had been gathered together again, and the circus was again on its travels...