Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper is a colossal bore. Turgid editorials crawl on, column after column; leaden propaganda handouts in the form of "news" stories weigh down the front page. But in Communist China, nearly everyone who is anyone reads the People's Daily of Peking-and for good reason. As the official organ of both party and government. the eight-page daily (circ. 700,000) is handbook and scripture to right-thinking Chinese Reds...
...thick traffic of the working-class suburb of Catia, the caravan slowed to a crawl, then halted. Several hundred rioters came running. They ripped the U.S. and Venezuelan flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...
...shall also, eventually, have a go at the Royal Cemetery nearby which has sixty to one hundred mounds in it. Some of these have been looted, of course, and one finds tunnels made by grave-robbers. I tried to crawl into the biggest one myself; it had been filled nearly to the top already and more earth came down, so I had to stop. It is quite tantalizing, however, since you can see a great distance into the tuunel...
Lieser protested to the state government of Baden-Württemberg. Nothing happened. When he pressed his case, officials, hoping to hush up the matter, tried to arrange a reconciliation between Lieser and Zind. But instead of apologizing, Zind snapped: "I would rather clean the streets than crawl...
...makes possible Ralph Bellamy's extraordinarily effective portrayal, one which achieves not bits of personality but the sense of a person, not a pronouncing of words but a manner of speech. In Bellamy's coping with stretchers, wheelchairs, crutches and braces, in his making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism or performing virtuosity; there is always a sense of characterization and of character. It is a notable performance, culminating in the advance on crutches to the Convention rostrum-the re-entry into public...