Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More uneven than the music, the choreography in the first act often makes the songs drag. Too often the tribe members crawl like insects about the stage, and they seem out of syncopation in several numbers. By the second act, their timing improves remarkably; "3500's" dancers rival the Rockettes inuvovgfination. Also stunningly choreographed, Claude's hallucinations during "Walking in Space" demonstrate convincingly the horrors of war throughout time...
...England was another factor in Carter's decision. The region's fishermen were enraged when the State Department at first refused to endorse Coast Guard recommendations that Soviet trawlers be seized. Thundered an editorial in New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader. "Are we going to crawl to the Russians at the expense of U.S. interests? How about a little immediate action...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...
Truckin'--that's something hippies do when they get bored. That's the name of a song by the Grateful Dead. That's modern, right? Actually, Cora La Redd first introduced a song called "Truckin"' at the Cotton Club in New York in 1935. Likewise, Fats Waller's "Alligator Crawl" preceeded Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" by more than 40 years. Popular music, like the song titles, derives from an old American tradition. Rock 'n roll was born 20 years ago, like me. The national hit charts were born over 40 years ago, like...
...spent fully within two or three months." The Carter forces are counting on the rebates to encourage business to spend more on expansion, since consumer purchasing power will be increased. While the 1976 recovery was sparked by inventory rebuilding and consumer spending, it was eventually slowed to a crawl by lagging business investment...