Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right side are longer than the ones on his left side, so he kin stand straight as he goes around the hill feedin'. He kin only go 'round that one way, o' course, an' when he gets ready to go to bed he has to lie down an' crawl into his hole...
...Like unrolling carpets ... so thick that in places the ground itself seemed to crawl forward in a grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace...
...were mostly shirtless, but some few were devout Roman Catholics of wealth and consequence. Due to the anticlerical laws (TIME, Feb. 22) no Roman Catholic priest officiated at the shrine. Roman Catholic laymen, armed with batons, hurried the crowds past the Blessed Virgin's image. Peons who sought to crawl to and from the shrine on all fours were made to get up and walk lest they obstruct...
Rising to a toast, Sir Alan Cobham said: "A man is never too old to fly. I will never give up flying until I am too old to crawl into my machine...
...good enough to state his profession? "Potztausend!" cried Father Ederle, looking hungrily at the gaunt official, "I am a butcher. . . ." He had not, on the long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This...