Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More and more European settlers have decided to remain in Kenya, and I think their view is justified. Of course, tribalism could muck it all up. But with a little luck, I think Kenya can gradually crawl forward...
...Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion), and set out to rule the world. When 007 finds him, he is about to "topple" a U.S. rocket carrying an astronaut. 007 tries to stop him, but No sneers evilly and shuts Bond up in a warm, dark cell. To escape, 007 has to crawl through a steaming-hot tube about a mile long. He comes out limp. Doctor No leaps upon him, snarling. Locked together, they reel toward the incandescent core of an atomic furnace...
AHEAD Motorists slowed to a crawl. Some even turned around and crawled back. Business boomed at the Pomfret Spirit Shoppe. But the state police said no. There was a law against private citizens' telling motorists to slow down, and besides, the sign was too close to the road. Proprietor Patenaude pondered about it all winter. This week he has a new sign ready for installation along Route 169-farther back from the road, but bigger...
Swimmers or Crawlers? Le grand Charles's latest fracas was spawned by a fine point of international law and the ways of lobsters: Do they swim as well as crawl? If lobsters swim, then the French may be entitled to catch them as fish; if they only crawl, they are Brazilian.* For, according to a 1958 Geneva convention, nations have a right to all the natural resources on the .continental shelf, including those living organisms that move in "constant physical contact" with the sea bed. Off Brazil, the continental shelf extends as much as 200 miles into...
...band together. That's really the way it is with us. I am taking you into a spiral, but it's not going to be an elevation: we're going down--down into the depths of the heart. I want to find a cranny in you that I can crawl through. That is the function of the poet: to create an aperture. The poet must be violent; he must crack the ego and reach through, or he is nothing. When something does crack the ego, for one appalling moment"--he paused--"we apprehend...