Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million frantic Indians turned out to cheer the Pope, shoving and pushing wildly to get a glimpse of him. His white Lincoln Continental convertible took an hour and a half to crawl the 13 miles of highway from the airport to the Eucharistic Congress. Giant signs along the route proclaimed India's welcome: LONG LIVE THE POPE, NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN, JOY ICE CREAMS WELCOME PAUL VI. A bit jokingly, a brilliant sign all awash in white lights on Marine Drive in Bombay blared: BIRTH CONTROL CENTER FOR SEX HEALTH...
...answer depends, first of all, on how good a skier you are. The old adage that one must crawl before walking applies particularly to the new skier, for there are few activities that make more physical demands and require better conditioning than alpine skiing...
JAKE: To me, deep in my heart, Muriel is a never-seen objective correlative for the tortured flaming creature with burned breasts that was the Algeria of so many long agonized bloody strife-torn years of horrible rending aux abois war. And that creepy music, it made my skin crawl...
...Merrill decides to swim home. It pleases him to imagine that his neighbors' swimming pools form the course of a broad river winding through fertile fields to the grounds of his own fine house. He names the river after his wife Lucinda and sets out at a choppy crawl. At the Grahams' he is given a drink, and at the Bunkers', where a pool party is going on, he gets another. "Oh, how bonny and lush were the banks of the Lucinda River! Prosperous men and women gathered by the sapphire-colored waters, while caterers...
...Monsters. At eight, in those happy days before TV, Sartre began to write stories of his own, filling copybook after copybook, until "my wrist ached," with wild tales of African jungles and supernatural horrors that made his flesh crawl as he put them down...