Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flowed into BBDO along with Revson. The biggest was the fact that Client Revson demanded top-quality advertising and simply worked too hard for the admen to keep up. The weary admen began agreeing with Revson's bad ideas as well as his good ones in order to crawl home to the wife and kiddies. His brand of rugged individualism overpowered those accustomed to the grey-flanneled politeness of modern, managerial-type clients...
Hoffa continued to crawl. He saw nothing wrong, he said, about the conflicting interests he had been maintaining; he admitted that a dishonest union boss might take advantage of business deals and loans made with employers of truck drivers, but fortunately for the Teamsters, Hoffa protested, he is an honorable man. But he could not recall, for example, where he had borrowed part of $20,000 that he had invested in one company; neither could he remember why he borrowed $5,000 from a businessman who had a Teamster contract...
...German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating in the air. They turned out not to be a secret weapon but something to do with the mating of spiders...
...East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order an attack on a crossroads "with everything that can still crawl." Its nonmilitary purpose, correctly divined by Gunner Asch, is to let Hauk and Greifer escape...
...also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power to make people crawl...