Word: crawling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feet tied and hands clutched painfully behind their backs, the U.S. Army officers snaked and wiggled on their stomachs over the dusty, rock-strewn ground. "This way, sickie, crawl to me!" cried one captor. "You're ugly, you know that, sickie? Crawl-remember, we've got a lot worse waiting...
Under constant taunts from their captors, the artillerymen were forced to crawl, wallow in mud, hang by their legs from a horizontal bar, sit for seemingly endless minutes with their legs wrapped painfully around a pole. The guards badgered them for information beyond the maximum-name, rank and serial number-sanctioned by the Geneva Treaty. A sympathetic "Red Cross" representative tried to wheedle additional intelligence out of them, but most immediately spotted him as a phony...
Five weeks ago, the so-called United Network went on the TV screens in 106 U.S. cities with the Las Vegas Show, a two-hour club crawl of the "Strip." The program, promised United President Oliver Treyz, would be "the most exciting and dynamic variety show ever televised," and would by fall enable him to add six more hours of daily programing and news, and thus make United a full-fledged competing fourth network. Bold words-considering that they came from a modest headquarters over a Woolworth's store on Manhattan's East Side...
...United show is a two-hour, five-night-a-week club crawl of Vegas, with Comic Bill Dana introducing the pretaped acts. Dana's putative advantage over the competition is that there is more top cabaret talent in Vegas in a week than Carson's New York or Bishop's Los Angeles sees in a month. Trouble is that about half of Dana's ten-odd nightly guests are lounge (or second-string) acts rather than the featured stars...
...significant crack occurred in that system with the German-language publication in the West of The Taste of Power, by the Slovak writer Ladislav Mňačko. Although his book has not been published in Czechoslovakia, Mňačko, 47, made no attempt to crawl under cover. Setting a precedent for a "protest" novel, he dealt personally with Austrian Publisher Fritz Molden, expects his book to appear before long throughout Europe...