Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sastrugi. Doggedly sticking to its scientific schedule, but far behind its timetable, the Fuchs expedition crawled up the domed icecap from South Ice. It painfully threaded through a line of nunataks (mountain peaks almost submerged in ice), and reached ice with fewer crevasses on the high plateau behind. Here were great fields of sastrugi-wind-formed ridges of hard-packed snow sometimes 4 ft. high. The Sno-Cats crossed them all right, but with dangerous pitching and crashing. Progress slowed to a crawl; the weather grew worse; but the scientists kept to their schedule as if they were making their...
...muzhik from Kalinovka whom Stalin commanded to dance the gopak, the hayseed at whom Beria sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician." When Stalin put Nikita in charge of the Moscow party back in the '30s, Khrushchev used to don navvies' rough clothes, crawl down to visit the sandhogs tunneling out the new subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace courtiers dubbed him "Comrade Lavatory Lover" because Nikita not only insisted on equipping the Moscow...
...found the answer: the dorms are amplifying systems during the day; you can't walk through a library without some hornrimmed creature goggling from between the pages of a mouldy scrapbook at you; and this Square is palsy in motion; this place makes my flesh crawl right off my bones during...
...little less than a year ago, TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark watched Soviet tanks crawl into Budapest, dodged bullets in Budapest's Szena Square when 2,000 students overturned streetcars to use as fragile barricades against the Russian guns. Last week, back on a brief visit granted by the Communist government, Correspondent Clark reported on Budapest one year after...
...Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor to attend his pregnant wife is slowed to an alcoholic crawl by a succession of pubs and pals until the quest finally blurs into a blue forgetfulness; in A Bachelor's Story, crusty Archie Boland comes to the belated knowledge that his one narrow escape from matrimony was actually his last chance of happiness. Author O'Connor's stories...