Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many states as too dangerous). This is a boon for the driver too, since backseat drivers can only communicate with him by banging on the window or installing an intercom-though one manufacturer is considering making a truck with a roll-down back window that would allow passengers to crawl from living room to pilot's compartment...
...California Governor Pat Brown, 59, at his Sacramento mansion with a fibula fractured by stepping in a hole at a golf course, an accident that will keep him on crutches for six weeks ("But he wouldn't miss the Democratic Convention," said an aide, "if he had to crawl"); Oldtime Cine-comedian Stan Laurel, 74, at Los Angeles' Valley Doctors Hospital, where he has been receiving hundreds of letters from his ever-faithful fans while undergoing treatment for chronic diabetes...
...celebrated soliloquy in pitch darkness. Only as it continues do the lights come up to reveal a steeply raked stage with an oppressive, gray two-level set, and Richard (Douglas Watson), with a big cross hung about his hypocritical neck, sitting on the floor until he begins to crawl like an animal. Only gradually are we aware of his ugly visage, hunched back, deformed right hand, and a misshapen leg that necessitates the strapping on of an artificial foot...
Many of the most popular songs simply crawl around under the hood admiring the engine without so much as a mention of speed and danger...
...main street, the Koblenzer Strasse, is part of the north-south highway from Cologne to Coblenz, and is perpetually jammed by 36,000 trucks and cars a day that must slow to a crawl to squeeze through the 18th century Koblenzer Gate in the middle of town. The 20,000 cars a day that travel east or west through Bonn have to cross a railroad line that bisects the city; at three level crossings the gates are closed for 360 trains a day, or an average of 20 minutes each hour. Capital traffic is also disrupted by a flock...