Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aware) that the winds which howl about his hairdo do not shake the trees in the processed backgrounds; and he arrives in Montana looking as fresh as a 54-year-old daisy can. At that point, Jane spreads her quilt for him again, and even the villain has to crawl. "He's what every boy wants to be when he grows up," Ryan reverently declares, "and what he wishes he had been when...
...arms flying back and forth like those of a man swimming with a crawl stroke...
...Riviera, Johnston lugged his recording gear through Savoy to the link-up with Patton's army, advancing through the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line. The Seine was his fifth river, but the only experience Johnston records in Paris is of an unsuccessful brothel crawl. Soon he was back with Patton, blasting a path towards the Americans encircled in Bastogne. That Christmas, General Patton issued greeting cards with a prayer for good weather so that his fighter-bombers could strafe the Nazi armor. When the skies began clearing slowly, old Blood and Guts ordered: "Print 500 more...
Into the Sun. Much was undecided and unknown, the scientists emphasized. "This is just a beginning experiment and you don't know until you start . . . where you go from there. You want to crawl in space before you fly." But fantasy flashed irrepressibly through their sober scientific pronouncements: "It should be barely possible to see it at twilight with the naked eye . . . certainly with a good pair of binoculars ... It will be illuminated by the sun, just like the moon . . . very much like a little moon...
...locomotion of the snail is explained in detail. The long flat "foot" lays down a roadway of sticky mucus; then parts of the foot grip the ground while other parts move forward. When the snail is crawling on glass, the action of its foot can be seen as a series of slow waves. The speed averages 2½ in. per minute, and the snail makes about 35 foot-waves to cover this distance. The tractive force is considerable. A snail can lift five times its weight up a vertical surface, and on the horizontal it can pull a toy wagon...