Word: crawling
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...Bing's mother, Yee, slips off her sandals as she steps into the hut, clutching her 14-month-old baby. She sits down next to her son and while the baby scrambles to crawl from her lap, she begins pulling the paper backing from a piece of tinfoil, readying the foil for a smoke. Her hands are a whir of finger-flashing activity?assembling and disassembling a lighter, unclogging the pipe, unwrapping the tablets, straightening the foil, lighting the speed and then taking the hit. She exhales finally, blowing smoke just over her baby's face. Bing asks his mother...
Union, tied for the last playoff spot entering the night , played a classic desperate hockey game and dictated the flow of the contest from the opening draw. Keeping three men back on defense at almost all times, the Skating Dutchmen successfully slowed the game to a crawl, holding the Crimson to just 21--mostly weak--shots on goal and almost no offensive flow...
After a winter recess spent recovering from their crawl through what Felix Frankfurter called the "political thicket," the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court are finally back to the kind of work whose national importance is a bit more theoretical...
...They were the lucky ones. Another resident, Girish Sanghani, managed to crawl free from the debris, but his wife Bhavna and their son were entombed under a pile of broken concrete slabs. Miraculously, Bhavna survived the initial collapse. Following her faint cries, Sanghani and rescue workers clawed a hole through the rubble, wide enough to pass down a lamp and a cup of tea?but not large enough to liberate the woman. "She is trapped in a fetal position cradling her child," said rescue worker Nishant Chidda. "We believe the child is dead. Otherwise, she would've passed...
...look to his right. Almost simultaneously, Phyllis and the friends and family in the house jumped. She thought the series of pops was firecrackers. Then she recognized the sound as gunfire and immediately did what Derwin had taught her. She ordered everyone to get down on the floor and crawl away, because the den has wood siding. She figured they would be safer behind brick walls. She also figured it was the house next door that was under attack...