Word: creep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Odessa has miles-long catacombs, dug in the 19th Century to get sandstone for the city's construction. From these caves Russian suicide squads were still reported operating. They were said to come out at night, creep from house to house, find enemy rendezvous, blow them up. Fortnight ago the Rumanian general in charge of the city was blown up with his staff. The Rumanians vainly tried to fumigate the catacombs, have now posted machine guns at the vaults' entrances. Wrote one correspondent: "The whole atmosphere is one of lurking danger and stealthy death, such...
...spite of the preparation, in spite of the effort, the Germans seemed to creep closer all the time. The outer "Moscow circle" of more or less permanent defenses was breached in at least three places (see map). The inner circle-only 60 miles from the city-was hard pressed. The entire city was in danger of encirclement...
While Queen Bess and other principals hold the forestage, for instance, village supers clad in sackcloth creep among the trees, unable to make themselves heard through the wind as they chant: "Digging and delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...
...Revere would have a hard time getting through the town at more than a slow canter. The little yellow triangles with their glass-lettered '25 m.p.h." mean what they say nowadays, and woe to the luckless wretch who presses the accelerator down to the floor and watches the needle creep slowly up to twenty...
...Italians managed to creep along. Early this week they were at the gates of Ioannina. The spearhead was eventually supposed to go to Larissa, whence a railway and a good highway lead to the Attic peninsula and Athens...