Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large black object . . . crawl . . . over the foot of the bed, and swiftly spread itself up to [my daughter's] throat, where it swelled, in a moment, into a great palpitating mass...
Such studies of just how low a louse can crawl, though stylish among amateurs of the psychopathic, are seldom more interesting, dramatically, than watching a real louse crawl from one point to another. Yet Producer Mark (The Killers) Hellinger and his colleagues have provided a good many compensations. The town's "class" bar and company picnic, and most of the-supporting performances, are unusually shrewd keyhole glimpses of U.S. provincial life. Sonny Tufts's transformation from a big, pleasant male ingenue to a resourceful actor is as impressive as it is startling. With plenty of assistance from script...
...were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing for a general strike to end the "betrayal" by its own national leaders, voting at the same time to keep away from the garages. The strike finally ended only when employers managed to crawl out of their dugouts and reportedly offered to give in. Troops are being taken out of their unwanted task, not because the strike was broken, and a truck strike is comparatively easy to beat, but because the unruly men had won. That school of thought which considers be-tough...
...justice, would sacrifice his tax exemption and much more to see U.N. grow strong enough to keep the peace. He believes passionately, however, that the infant U.N. must learn to crawl before it can stand up to the great nations whose veto almost nullifies U.N.'s peace-loving powers. Learning to crawl toward peace will be a slow process, Lie says: "This task, to make life richer for ordinary human beings everywhere, must occupy us throughout our lifetimes, and it will occupy those who follow us in time to come...
...Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, prepared to call it a summer and crawl back to Washington from his Texas ranch. It was better this year than last, when he broke an arm trying to catch one of his cows. Now the lucky statesman was suffering only from bee stings-four on one foot, from a bee in his boot...