Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Palfreys had selected her, when she was eight, because of her grave intelligence and unusual looks. For her and the reader the cruel blow comes early: her real parents turn out to be murderers of the most melodramatic sort. For the rest of the story James must crawl back from a cliché that might have been assigned to her in a nightmare game of charades. That she does so is no small achievement, but she must use all the devices of suspense: obscene acts that are half-forgotten, split-timed suicide, public facts that are fortuitously hidden...
...attack hastened the militia's retreat; others, though, turned around and fought. One old man knelt by his shot-filled tricorner hat and fired ineffectually at the British until he was stabbed through the heart. Another, Jonathan Harrington, was mortally wounded but managed to crawl across the common to his doorstep before dying in the arms of his wife...
...With the loss of staff, there will be some slowdown in timing. The challenge we face is not to let that slowdown become a crawl," Wolfman said...
...long time the name of the game was survival--we were treading water, and we didn't know if we were going to drown. But we came out of the Hudson River, and now we're doing the crawl, not the backstroke...
...Terry Sullivan placed photographs of the 22 identified victims on a wooden easel and described each one in detail. The next day, Chief Prosecutor William Kunkle snatched up the photos and stalked over to a wooden hatch that had been brought into the courtroom; it had once covered the crawl space under the Gacy house. "Show the same sympathy and pity this man showed when he took these lives," Kunkle told the jury. With that, he flung the photos through the opening of the hatch. Gasps filled the courtroom...