Word: creep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration of the dining halls is a very complex business. Annually $500,000 worth of food and supplies pass through the hands of the man who is in charge of the dining halls. Without the greatest care and constant supervision laxness and waste are bound to creep in. On the basis of its investigation, the Committee makes the following recommendations, designed to eliminate these defects...
Senator Nye, who is pretty good himself at making flesh creep, handsomely announced: "Never in 15 years have I seen a Senate committee so thoroughly impressed." He was convinced that Mr. Barlow's bomb would give any nation an "incomparable advantage...
Announcements in London last week revealed the steady creep and clutch of the Allies' octopus-like attack on Germany's economic life. Most important new tentacle of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, sparkplugged by lean, dapper Ronald Cross, is a trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal...