Word: creep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands in front of the Paramount and Lafayette theatres after the midnight show break, Small's and Connie's Inn (Harlem night clubs) after 2.30 a.m., and lower Fifth Ave., but at no such spots are public stands allowed. Enterprising independents instruct their drivers how to creep by the choicest spots in the city at the proper moment...
...examination by his Channel Tunnel Committee (TIME, March 24) the Cabinet has finally decided not to build one, although this project has been urged and argued in and out of season for more than 50 years. Reason: fear. The English are still afraid that a sneaking French Army might creep among them in the night. Said Le Matin of Paris, last week, in a jocular editorial: "If the British do not want us to pass under the Channel, we will fly over...
Turksib (Amkino). Two shining steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting...
...that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered for the title. Between rounds they stood near the Scoreboard watching Stevenson M. Crothers' score creep away from the other high guns; listening to other gun ners marvel at his easy style (not hunched up and strangling the gun like more ner vous men), his steadiness, his fourth triumph. Afterwards they helped him carry home his share of the $9,900 worth of prizes - a diamond medal...
...continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...