Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schnair, bleeding from a gash in his head, to a narrow cubbyhole beneath the platform out of the way of the wheels. The train began moving, but then screeched to a halt when a screaming bystander implored the conductor to stop the train. Andrews and Schnair huddled in the crawl space until the power was cut off and they could be hoisted to safety...
Several encouraging economic trends have sparked and sustained the rally, which has pushed the Dow up by an astounding 275 points (35%) since mid-August. Inflation slowed to an annual rate of only 2.4% in September, a crawl by comparison with the 8.9% pace of last year. Because prices are rising less rapidly and the Federal Reserve Board has eased its monetary policy, interest rates have dropped sharply in the past three months. The bench-mark prime rate charged for corporate loans, for example, has dipped at some banks to 11.5%, from 16% in July. Investors are increasingly confident that...
...mistress." Whether or not she was more than a mistress, he appears to have been the master. During sworn pretrial testimony, Morgan claimed that Bloomingdale would bind several women with his neckties, beat them with a belt and "stand there and watch the girls get on the floor and crawl ... he'd have these girls crawl on the floor, and he'd sit on their back and drool, okay?" The judge also dismissed Morgan's $5 million claim against Betsy Bloomingdale. Morgan's attorney will probably appeal. "It really is an ugly mess," said Morgan, "more...
...Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect the presence of Polish Attaché Jozef Matusiak, who was concealed in an attic. Eventually, Matusiak managed to crawl through a window onto the shingled embassy roof, and Swiss commandos standing by with ladders hauled him to safety...
...large extent, minority groups seem to see their role as just that--getting people's minds ticking about groups in a way they have not thought of them before. Every time RUS lobbies for a change in treatment for women, or disabled students hold a crawl-in, slowly but surely they are chipping away at the archetypal--but increasingly inaccurate--view of Harvard as 350 years of everything they...