Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide him with an alibi, he could see the flames dancing in his rear-view mirror...
...Valchem crew's quarters, just five or six feet abaft the deep cut, an oiler awoke into a nightmare. Said Artzy Vokeris, 53, in his broken English: "Lights out. Ship prow cut all lines. Gas steam in. Everybody trapped in room and can't see. I crawl on floor to get out. Butler and McKay right where collision is. Nobody see them anywhere. Joe Mora try to climb out porthole and pull self on deck. He fall in water. Everybody throw him life jacket, but I don't see him no more." Total dead: four Valchem seamen...
...visit to Toronto, Australian Super-miler Herb Elliott gamely tried out an unfamiliar sport, as expected ended his turn on the hickories like ski bunnies everywhere: doing an Australian crawl down under a pile of snow. Shaken but game, he scrambled woozily to his feet, diplomatically calmed the fears of his hosts with a gingerly verdict on the adventure...
...Tito Gobbi as Amonasro. But the stage sets looked as though they had been resurrected from an early copy of the Victor Book of Operas: cluttered scenes with every temple, tower and palm frond rendered in tedious detail. And Paris Opera Conductor Georges Sebastian throttled the tempo to a crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into striking out for several bars at a brisk clip all his own. The costumes matched the sets: an indeterminate sausage-roll garment for ample Soprano Rysanek, an orange-colored Raggedy Ann wig for Soprano Simionato. a short man's nightgown for the Pharaoh...
...when Holly has the "mean reds," as she calls the deep blues, and shudders at thoughts of "the fat woman," as she calls death, she likes to cab past Tiffany's and "breakfast" on its jeweled serenity, or else crawl out on her fire escape with her cat and sing "Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures...