Word: creep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primarily for house detectives and G-men. It was aiming at the important field of "industrial television," where the Vidicon will have vast importance. In the roaring, naming innards of modern industry there are many goings-on too dangerous for human eyes to watch. A cheap, expendable Vidicon can creep up close to a new machine being tested "to destruction." It can brave the flood of gamma rays from a nuclear reactor. It can ride on a guided missile or watch the detonating mechanism of an atomic bomb. Up to the time when it "dies," the faithful tube will report...
Having, pared down the problem, the Brookings researchers proceeded to knock down the Ewing solution. Compulsory insurance, they argued, would mean too much governmental regulation and control, which would creep into the relationship between doctor and patient. Furthermore, politics could not be kept out. Worst of all, "the cost of medical care presumably would increase because of a) administrative expenses; b) the tendency of insured persons to make unnecessary and often unreasonable demands upon the medical care services; and c) the tendency of some practitioners and agencies to use the system for their own financial advantage...
...news that the U.S. was building a hydrogen bomb, together with Dean Acheson's opinion that it was no longer any use to seek agreement with Russia on atomic energy control (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), caused some people to look for a convenient hole to creep into. France, the U.S.'s principal ally on the Continent, seemed to be looking hardest...