Word: creep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafted, and sent to the front," an ominous-sounding male voice admonished. "The flames of war may creep in from the Caribbean and engulf your home...
...racks, each supported on eight crawler treads 12 ft. high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...
...shadows of early evening were beginning to creep across the infield, but nobody made a move to leave. Other athletes in brightly colored warm-up suits lounged on the grass, spectators now themselves. The attention of everyone in cavernous Stanford Stadium was focused on a lanky figure poised at the end of the high-jump runway...
...palm-oil output is lost to smugglers. Unemployed workers upcountry now flock to Leopoldville, where 100,000 of the normal 300,000 labor force are already out of work. Organized gangs, ignoring the barred windows and the bright floodlights around homes of the well to do, creep up at night to saw off the bars and steal what they can. The U.N. is bringing 64 judges from abroad to build a judiciary system for the country. One of the first judges to arrive lost his briefcase to a thief on his first day in town...
...friends all call me Redcap"), his two married daughters show up with broody broods in tow. and in obvious need of a good divorce counselor. One little grandson, who seems to have been born under a rock, calls Stewart "Boom-pah," and Boom-pah calls him a "little creep," though creepy would be more exact...