Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...installations, the 54-ft. missiles are flown in C-133 cargo planes from an Air Force plant near Ogden, Utah, to Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls, transferred in an air-conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over 18,000 sq. mi., connected by 3,000 miles of road, only 500 of them paved. At the sites...
...fully aware of the potentiality for boredom in sending highly trained men underground to sit and wait. All launch crew members hold B.S. degrees, work toward master's in aerospace engineering while on duty. "We don't anticipate that any of these men will crawl the walls," Andrus says...
...time, in fact, they looked somewhat like bandits fleeing the bobbies. Some were doing precisely that. Smash-and-grab robbers used the occasion to carry off thousands of pounds worth of loot from London's jewelers and banks. Scotland Yard's crack Flying Squad, reduced to a crawl, was virtually powerless to stop them...
...called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific...
...crawl at Monday dawn, and all is glum...