Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensation of being on skis is terrific. Anyone past the beginner stage of awkwardness caused by the presence of heavy boots and two ridiculously long boards can testify to the terrific, addictive feeling of cruising down a trail. Your course is completely self-determined at speeds ranging from a crawl to considerable speed...
...story is achingly familiar, and though Stallone has a certain power, he is certainly not the subtlest actor to crawl out from under Marlon's overcoat. But the picture goes most wrong in the conceit it employs to lift Rocky out of the clubs and into the big arena for his title challenge. An Ali-like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids...
Telling her archaeological surveillances weren't my cup of Java I graciously began my slow crawl away...
...Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan agreed that they would follow cautious policies aimed at a moderate annual expansion of world production, say 5%, through 1980. Today it appears that the Administration was altogether too persuasive: in most industrial countries, as in the U.S., expansion has slowed to a crawl, and the quiet optimism of the Puerto Rico meeting has given way to a galloping case of global jitters. Although inflation remains high (9.7% in Japan, 14.7% in Britain), the big worry among economists and politicians now is the possibility of a new global recession. Says C. Fred Bergsten...
...ring to avoid the wrath of the champion. The fifth time Bruno was not to be put off by such illegal shenanigans and leapt out of the ring after his staggering foe. Around and around the ring Bruno chased the terrified Hansen, until the craven defrauder had to crawl back into the ring to save his skin. Then, in what all true fans must agree to be one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in history, the referee, who had barely gotten to three in the twenty count out-of-the-ring-disqualification-call, declared the stunned and barely ambulatory...