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Word: crawl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inflation, already at double-digit levels in the U.S. and climbing rapidly in many other industrial nations, will go still higher. Economic growth will slow to at best a crawl, and unemployment will grow, in the U.S. by perhaps as much as 1.4 million in the next twelve months. In short, for the second time in a decade, the threat of an OPEC-induced global slump is imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What It Will Cost the U.S. | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Beckett is more than lucky in this revival at off-Broadway's Public Theater; he is blessed. Entrusting a play to Irene Worth is like investing in the Krugerrand. She is pure gold. Voskovec, in what amounts to a crawl-on part, is admirable. As for Andrei Serban, the ebullient Rumanian-born director-improvisationist, he has had the incredible tact not to tamper with the text. For which relief, much thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: God ls AWOL | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...away. Sometimes I even try to crawl into a locker. I can't get my hands on no clothes, and everybody else is dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Triumphant Victim | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Describing the difficulties he had with creating the domineering character of Louis in "Deliverance," Reynolds said that "there's a time when you have to get in touch with something inside you that terrifies you. You have to crawl inside of it and get in control...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Actor Reynolds Discusses Hollywood Ups and Downs | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

Undeterred, the police got a warrant to search Gacy's house. They discovered a trapdoor in a bedroom closet concealing a 40-ft. crawl space. They began poking around in it. By this time, Gacy was babbling. He had murdered 32 young men and boys, he said. He had thrown five into the Des Plaines River, southwest of Chicago; the rest were buried under the house and garage; he even drew the police a map of the graves. By the end of last week they had uncovered the skeletal remains of 28 of the victims, some still with ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Do Rotten, Horrible Things | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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