Word: creep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busses that used to come thundering down at you when you were trying to cross the street and stop right in your way, now have to creep along the curb and discharge passengers in front of Straus Hall or the Harvard Trust Company, depending on the direction they are going. Cars may no longer park in either of these places. Parking in front of Straus and Massachusetts Hall will be diagonal...
This indeed is a sign of our times; that into the broad field of education, which has so long been able to amble along, untouched by the comings and the goings, should creep the irritations of social growth. --The Dartmouth...
...true that errors did creep is but they were merely gradual steps and are easier to recognize as errors when viewed in retrospect than the were at the time...
...mornings later the Dixie's company watched a low bank of black clouds creep over the southeastern horizon. By noon a stiff blow was on. By 4 o'clock the Dixie was pitching, rolling and trembling from stem to stern in the grip of a full-sized tempest which had caught her in the perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck...
...fault most likely to creep into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. Sanders of the River, consequently, is full of native war dances, canoe-paddling, realistic spear-shaking and drum-beating which, no doubt interesting in a travelog, have no place in this narrative. It is distinguished by Michael Spolianski's curious but usually effective musical score, by Paul Robeson's vocalizations of lyrics which sound alarmingly like U.S. college football songs, and by Negro acting which is no less genuine because most...