Word: creep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doubts Creep In. Some Senators doubted if the services could absorb draftees quickly enough, even if the 18-year-old manpower pool was made available. Said Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, subcommittee chairman: "You come up before this committee asking us to draw up legislation for the drafting of 18-year-olds, and at the same time men are rapping at your door and you can't take them...
Some Soviet scientists might be reassured. Others would continue to watch their instruments suspiciously lest heretical ideas creep out of them...
Could make stones creep like ivy stems...
Between performances in Broadway's Peter Pan, Boris Karloff launched his Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest (over Manhattan's WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction...
...more. The man with an income of $1,000,000 now pays about $770,000; under the new law he would pay $857,000 -a little less than one-eighth more. The new schedule would hit the lowest income groups hardest, a practice that usually makes politicians' flesh creep...