Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape alive from the fastest planes, the pilot will need some sort of detachable "capsule." One possibility is a streamlined cylinder built into the belly of the plane. The pilot in distress would crawl into it and pull a handle. A parachute would then open and drag the cylinder out of the rear of the plane. A more elaborate device (kinder to the pilot) is a detachable cockpit that can be blown free of the plane by a set of explosive bolts...
Nineteen Nights. After the15th day he was conscious of little but pain and cold. He lay motionless, unable to crawl to water. He did not know that Air Force planes had sighted the wreckage, and had dropped food and medical supplies only 175 yards from him. On the 19th night, when a rescue party stumbled past within 20 feet of him, he could not make himself heard...
...although his house is on fire, his daughter has just eloped with a man who was seen coming out of a Henry Wallace rally . . . and he has had an automobile accident that has broken his back, fractured his skull and crushed both legs-is still able to crawl to the microphone and help the announcer explain the big contest and where you mail the box tops...
...Jhelum front is a succession of giant hills which must be taken in turn. There are men on these hilltops who have been without baths and hot meals for three months, supplied by coolies who have to crawl up the mountain. On one 11,000-foot peak it takes a coolie 24 hours to carry up three mortar shells, and the wounded must be carried down on a man's back...
...desire in a way to make Shakespeare congratulate himself in his grave. His inflection of Hamlet's reply to Ophelia's You are keen, my lord, you are keen (It would cost you a groaning, to take off my edge) is enough to make the flesh crawl with its cruelty, the complexity which leaps into view behind the cruelty, and the brilliance of the actor who hides behind that...